The Population of modern China /

This work brings together some of the most important recent English-language articles dealing with virtually all aspects of the population of mainland China. This timely resource will be a valuable tool for the Western demographer to reconstruct in detail what has happened to China's population...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Poston, Dudley L., 1940-, Yaukey, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Press, [1992]
Series:Plenum series on demographic methods and population analysis.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : population and population studies in China. New China's population / Li Muzhen
  • Population studies in China : privileged past, anxious future / Susan Greenhalgh
  • Size, growth, and distribution. A brief history of China's population / Judith Banister
  • Population dynamics and policy in China / Lee-Jay Cho
  • Distribution of Chinese population / Li Muzhen
  • International migration. The distribution of the overseas Chinese / by Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Yu Mei-Yu
  • The old Chinatown ghettos / Peter Kwong
  • Mortality. China's changing mortality / Judith Banister
  • Famine in China, 1958-61 / Basil Ashton ... [et al.]
  • Fertility, abortion and contraceptive trends. Fertility trends in China / Dudley L. Poston, Jr.
  • Abortion in China : incidence and implications / H. Yuan Tien
  • Patterns of contraceptive use in China / Dudley L. Poston, Jr.
  • Fertility differentials. Local area variations in reproductive behavior in China, 1973-1982 / Ronald Freedman ... [et al.].
  • (cont.) Socioeconomic development, family planning and fertility in China : a subregional analysis / Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Gu Baochang
  • Fertility policy. Fertility policy in China : future options / Susan Greenhalgh and John Bongaarts
  • Second thoughts on the second child : a talk with Peng Peiyun / H. Yuan Tien
  • Effects of the one-child policy on the children of China / Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Toni Falbo
  • Age and sex structure. The age-sex structure of modern China : a graphic description and explanation / David Yaukey
  • Implications of the aging of China's population / Judith Banister
  • Sex preference, fertility, and family planning in China / Fred Arnold and Liu Zhaoxiang
  • Marriage and family. Marriage in China since 1950 / Ansley J. Coale
  • Changes in family structure in China / Zeng Yi
  • Ethnic composition. Ethnic diversity and distribution / Judith Banister
  • The demographic and socioeconomic composition of China's ethnic minorities / Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and Shu Jing.
  • (cont) Ethnic identification in China / Fei Xiao Tong
  • Internal migration and urbanization. Migration in China : methodological and policy challenges / Alice Goldstein and Sidney Goldstein
  • Urbanization in China : new insights from the 1982 census / Sidney Goldstein
  • Provincial population size and interprovincial migration / Judith Banister
  • Epilogue : China in 1990 / Dudley L. Poston, Jr.