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1 online resource (293 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Focus and Objectives of the Present Study; Research Methodology and Fieldwork; 1 Economy, Institutions and Fertility: Theoretical Explorations; Fertility Studies: Searching for an Institutional Approach; Institutions, Institutional Change and Human Behaviour; Economy, Institutions and Fertility; 2 Chinese Reforms and Fertility: Macro Context |
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Transition from Planned Economy to Market Economy: Institutional Reforms and Rural DevelopmentEvolution of Population Policies; Chinese Population and Its Fertility: National Trend and Regional Variations; 3 The County: Reforms, Family Planning, Economy and Population; Reform Processes; Evolution of Family Planning Programmes; Economic Change and Population Dynamics; Disparities Among Townships and Villages; 4 The Village: Institutional Reforms and Social Change; General Profile of the Village; Reform Processes; Structural Changes; Income and Inequality; Village Cadres |
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Changes in Social Welfare: Education, Health and Social Relief5 Dynamics of Marriage Change; Changing Marriage Patterns; Changing Meaning of Marriage; Marriage Finance and Marital Transfers of Brideprice and Dowry; Decision-making Concerning Marriage; 6 The Changing Nature of Family Relations; Post-Reform Family and Household: Smaller in Size and Simpler in Structure; Early Household Division in the Reform Period; Division of Labour: Nangong Nunong, Women in Agriculture and Men in Non-agriculture; Intra- and Inter-family Relations; 7 Inter-generational Obligations and Fertility Motivation |
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Changing Roles of Children Within the Family: Pre-reform and Post-reform PeriodReshaped Fertility Motivations; 8 Implementation of State Family Planning Programmes; Pre-Reform and Post-Reform Family Planning: Old Styles and New Characteristics; Mediation of Formal Family Planning Policies; The 1993 Family Planning Campaigns; 9 Fertility, Contraception and Adoption; Changing Fertility Patterns; Fertility Decision Outputs: Start Childbearing, Birth Intervals and Stop Childbearing; Contraception, Abortion and Sterilization; Adoption of Children; Conclusion; Overview of Findings |
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Rethinking Economy, Institutions and Fertility in Rural ChinaAppendixes; I A Note on Fieldwork; II Some Problems in Official Statistics; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Based on an intensive fieldwork in a southern Hebei village in northern China (1992/3), the author takes an institutional approach and focuses on the way deliberate Chinese state policies driven by new economic and social agendas since the late 1970s have impacted on marriage, family relations and consequently on the way fertility trends have been adversely affected; the study is also very much concerned with the human dimension and the way in which such social and economic changes are perceived and applied in a rural community. The research presented in this study goes a long way to unravelli |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Economic development -- Social aspects -- China
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Fertility, Human -- Economic aspects -- China
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Rural development -- China
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Economic development -- Social aspects
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Fertility, Human -- Economic aspects
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Rural development
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China
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134245024 |
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1134245025 |
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