ISBN:
9780190917449
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
363.90917340951
Keywords:
Family planning-Government policy-China
;
Family size-Government policy-China
;
Rural families-China-Social conditions
;
Villages-China
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Cover -- Lost and Found: The "Missing Girls" in Rural China -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Counting the Missing -- Key Definitions -- The Single Child Policy and the "Missing Girls" -- Three Main Questions: Autonomy, Underreporting, and National Statistics -- Uneven Implementation: Street-Level Bureaucrats -- The Main Case: Birth Registration, Birth Control, and Central Policy -- Data -- Outline of the Book -- Chapter 1: Street-Level Birth Control and Mutual Noncompliance -- Implementation and Decentralization -- Street-Level Bureaucrats -- Grassroots Cadres and the Cadre Management System -- Underreporting of Arable Land and Grain Quotas: An Example -- The Elastic Policy Effect and Birth Control Mobilization -- Street-Level Family Planning -- Broader Theoretical Implications of the Rural Street-Level Bureaucrats -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Historical Underreporting and the Identification of the "Missing Girls" -- The Legacy of Underreporting -- The Registration System and Regional Censuses of 1912, 1928, and the 1940s -- The People's Republic of China: The Censuses of 1953, 1964, and 1982 -- Identifying the "Missing" -- Birth Cohorts and an Analysis of the 1982, 1990, 2000, and 2010 Censuses -- Comparing Birth Cohorts and Sex Ratios with Those of South Korea and India -- Female Infant Deaths, Adoptions, the People's Liberation Army, and Double Counts -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The Registration Challenge: Counting the Population from Imperial China to the People's Republic of China -- Subjects, Citizens, and Registration: From the Imperial Period through the Republican Period -- The Baojia System -- Imperial Reform and Registration -- The Chinese Communist Party and RegistrationPolicies, 1949-1979 -- Household Registration -- The Rural-Urban Divide -- The National Hukou System.
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