| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Street level birth control and mutual noncompliance -- Historical underreporting and identifying the "missing girls" -- Registration challenge: counting the population from Imperial China to the PRC -- Cadre voices and birth registration process in the villages -- Villagers, daughters, voices of the "missing." |
| Summary |
Although the reported gender imbalance, due to the Single Child Policy (1979-2015) has caused international alarm, this study finds that the number of ""missing girls"" may not be as pronounced as previous studies suggest due to wide spread local underreporting of births from the 1980s to early 2000s. In Local Leaders, Families, and the ""Missing Girls"" in Rural China, John James Kennedy and Yaojiang Shi focus on village-level implementation of the one-child policy and how shocking the level of mutual-noncompliance between officials and rural families has been |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 01, 2019) |
| Subject |
Family planning -- Government policy -- China
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Family size -- Government policy -- China
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Rural families -- China -- Social conditions
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Villages -- China
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Family size -- Government policy.
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Rural families -- Social conditions.
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Villages.
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China.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shi, Yaojiang, author
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| ISBN |
9780190917449 |
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019091744X |
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9780190917463 |
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0190917466 |
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