China's one‐child‐per‐couple policy represents an extraordinary attempt to engineer
national wealth, power, and global standing by drastically braking population growth …

One of the main puzzles of modern population and social history i among all countries
confronting rapid population growth in the secon of the twentieth century, China chose to …

China's one-child policy is one of the largest and most controversial social engineering
projects in human history. With the extreme restrictions it imposed on reproduction, the …

This chapter contains section titled: Follow the Numbers: Studying Population Governance
Population Science: Defining the Problem—A Crisis of Human Numbers Keeping China …

" This is a seminal contribution to policy making as a subject of anthropological study. But to
say only this would obscure the often gripping and intricate story of Chinese expert politics …

China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of
its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and because of the striking changes that have …

This article traces the origins of China's one-child-for-virtually-all policy to Maoist militarism
and post-Mao military-to-civilian conversion. Focusing on the work of Song Jian, leading …

In this article I suggest that" population" operates as a capacious domain of modern power,
with its own imaginaries, discourses, bureaucratic apparatuses, and social effects. Taking …

Originally published in 1972, this book illustrates why China's population problems are
complex. It discusses at an introductory level 20th Century phenomena such as the decline …

China's herculean efforts to slow the increase of its giant population appear to have worked:
the annual birth rate fell from about 35 births per 1,000 in the 1950s to 20 per 1,000 in the …