China's one-child population policy, first initiated in 1979, has had an enormous effect on the country s development. By reducing its fertility in the past two decades to less than two children per woman, and developing a family planning program focused heavily on sterilization and abortion, China has undergone a significant transition in status to a demographically developed country.

Bringing together contributions from leading academics, this book looks at the impact of the government's strict control over planning and population growth on the family, the wider society and the...

In this new book on Minority Fertility in Contemporary China, Chiung-Fang Chang attempts to fill methodological void by using a more appropriate statistical approach of multi-level analysis to examine the applicability of western assimilation perspective on minority fertility in China. In particular, this book attempts to examine the reduction in Chinas minority fertility that has occurred outside of the one-child family planning policy. This book offers comprehensive discussions on ethnic relations in China and vignettes for each of the minority nationalities at the beginning, ...