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 …

Current accounts of China's global rise emphasize economics and politics, largely
neglecting the cultivation of China's people. Susan Greenhalgh, one of the foremost …

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

In the late 1970s, just as China was embarking on a sweeping program of post-Mao reforms,
it also launched a one-child campaign. This campaign, which cut against the grain of rural …

" 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 …

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 …

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 …

Contemporary China has recently been seen as in the throes ofneoliberal restructuring'. This
claim is contested on theoretical and methodological grounds. During the period of …

This ambitious work is a multimedia, interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the
context of globalization from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sheldon Lu draws on …