ISBN:
9781009027335
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (264 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China Ser.
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Keywords:
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Abstract:
China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and oral history, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez investigates grassroots experiences of fertility policies and politics in modern China from the early twentieth century to the present.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Moving Beyond the One Child Policy -- Birth Control and Medical Modernity -- Going to the Source(s) -- Birth Control Case Studies: Shanghai, Tianjin, and Luoyang -- Chapter Outline -- 1 Building a Fitter Nation: Eugenics, Birth Control, and Abortion in Public Discourse, 1911-1949 -- Translating Modernity: Eugenics and Birth Control -- Infanticide, Abandonment, and Abortion in Public Discourse -- Chastity, Birth Control, and the Ideal Woman -- Conclusion -- 2 Birth Control in Practice: Emmenagogues, Contraceptives, and Abortions, 1911-1949 -- Abortion or Menstrual Regulation? -- The Trouble with Rubbers -- Abortion in the Records -- Birth Control and Abortion: Theory versus Practice -- Conclusion -- 3 Reaping the Fruits of Women's Labor: Birth Control in the Early PRC, 1949-1958 -- ''More Sons, More Happiness'' -- Did Sex Education Exist in 1950s China? -- Class, Location, and Birth Control -- Infidelity, Birth Control, and Abortion -- Conclusion -- 4 ''Birth Planning Has Many Benefits'': Weaving Family Planning into the Fabric of Everyday Life, 1959-1965 -- Birth Planning as Art and Entertainment -- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -- When Using Contraception, One Must Adhere to a Reliable Method -- Old Wine in a New Bottle (xinping jiujiu) -- Conclusion -- 5 Controlling Sex and Reproduction across the Urban-Rural Divide, 1966-1979 -- Cultures of Sex and Birth Control -- Sex and Birth Control in Practice -- Out-of-Wedlock Sex and Abortion in the Eyes of the Law -- The Rise of the Barefoot Doctors and the Evolving Role of the State -- Conclusion -- 6 The Rise and Demise of the One Child Policy, 1979-2015.
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