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The Population of Modern China

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Dudley L. Poston

    1. Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

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  2. David Yaukey

    1. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N3-xii
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  2. Introduction: Population and Population Studies in China

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-4
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    2. New China’s Population

      • Li Muzhen
      Pages 5-18

    3. Population Studies in China: Privileged Past, Anxious Future

      • Susan Greenhalgh
      Pages 19-46

  3. Size, Growth, and Distribution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-50
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    2. A Brief History of China’s Population

      • Judith Banister
      Pages 51-57

    3. Population Dynamics and Policy in China

      • Lee-Jay Cho
      Pages 59-81

    4. Distribution of Chinese Population

      • Li Muzhen
      Pages 83-112

  4. International Migration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-115
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    2. The Distribution of the Overseas Chinese

      • Dudley L. Poston Jr., Yu Mei-Yu
      Pages 117-148

    3. The Old Chinatown Ghettos

      • Peter Kwong
      Pages 149-159

  5. Mortality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-162
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    2. China’s Changing Mortality

      • Judith Banister
      Pages 163-223

    3. Famine in China, 1958–61

      • Basil Ashton, Kenneth Hill, Alan Piazza, Robin Zeitz
      Pages 225-271

  6. Fertility, Abortion and Contraceptive Trends

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-275
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    2. Fertility Trends in China

      • Dudley L. Poston Jr.
      Pages 277-285

    3. Abortion in China: Incidence and Implications

      • H. Yuan Tien
      Pages 287-310

    4. Patterns of Contraceptive Use in China

      • Dudley L. Poston Jr.
      Pages 311-327

  7. Fertility Differentials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 329-331
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    2. Local Area Variations in Reproductive Behavior in China, 1973–1982

      • Ronald Freedman, Xiao Zhenyu, Li Bohua, William Lavely
      Pages 333-365
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About this book

Student~ interested in world populations and demography inevitably need to know China. As the most populous country of the world, China occupies a unique position in the world population system. How its population is shaped by the intricate interplays among factors such as its political ideology and institutions, economic reality, government policies, sociocultural traditions, and ethnic divergence represents at once a fascinating and challenging arena for investigatIon and analysis. Yet, for much of the 20th century, while population studies have developed into a mature science, precise information and sophisticated analysis about the Chinese population had largely remained either lacking or inaccessible, first because of the absence of systematic databases due to almost uninterrupted strife and wars, and later because the society was closed to the outside observers for about three decades since 1949. Since the end of the Cultural Revolution, things have dramatically changed. China has embarked on an ambitious reform program where modernization became the utmost goal of societal mobilization. China could no longer afford to rely on imprecise census or survey information for population-related studies and policy planning, nor to remaining closed to the outside world. Both the gathering of more precise information and access to such information have dramatically increased in the 1980s. Systematic observations, analyses and reporting about the Chinese population have surfaced in the population literature around the globe.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

    Dudley L. Poston

  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

    David Yaukey

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Population of Modern China

  • Editors: Dudley L. Poston, David Yaukey

  • Series Title: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1231-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44235-3Published: 30 September 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44138-7Published: 30 September 1992

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-1231-2Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1877-2560

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1990

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 760

  • Topics: Demography, Population Economics, Sociology, general

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