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China's Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949-2005 Hardback - 2006

by Tyrene White

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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 reforms and childbearing preferences, was the culmination of a decade-long effort to subject reproduction to state planning. Tyrene White here analyzes this great social engineering experiment, drawing on more than twenty years of research, including fieldwork and interviews with a wide range of family-planning officials and rural cadres.White explores the origins of China's "birth-planning" approach to population control, the implementation of the campaign in rural China, strategies of resistance employed by villagers, and policy consequences (among them infanticide, infant abandonment, and sex-ratio imbalances). She also provides the first extensive political analysis of China's massive 1983 sterilization drive. The birth-planning project was the last and longest of the great mobilization campaigns, surviving long after the Deng regime had officially abandoned mass campaigns as instruments of political control.Arguing that the campaign had become an indispensable institution of rural governance, White shows how the one-child campaign mimicked the organizational style and rhythms both of political campaigns and economic production campaigns. Against the backdrop of unfolding rural reforms, only the campaign method could override obstacles to rural enforcement. As reform gradually eroded and transformed patterns of power and authority, however, even campaigns grew increasingly ineffective, paving the way for long-overdue reform of the birth-planning program.

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  • Title China's Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949-2005
  • Author Tyrene White
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition REP
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
  • Publication date 2006-05-30
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780801444050 / 0801444055
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.74 x 1 in (23.67 x 17.12 x 2.54 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects China - Population policy - History - 20th, Birth control - Government policy - China -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006001676
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.960

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  • Books & Culture, 05/01/2007, Page 28

About the author

Tyrene White is Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science at Swarthmore College.

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