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Lost and found : the "missing girls" in rural China /

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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...

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Main Authors: Kennedy, John James (Author), Shi, Yaojiang (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Family planning > Government policy > China.
Family size > Government policy > China.
Rural families > China > Social conditions.
Villages > China.
Planification familiale > Politique gouvernementale > Chine.
Familles > Dimension > Politique gouvernementale > Chine.
Familles rurales > Chine > Conditions sociales.
Villages > Chine.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Family size > Government policy
Rural families > Social conditions
Villages
China
Electronic books.
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190917449
019091744X
9780190917463
0190917466