Lost and Found

The "Missing Girls" in Rural China

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av John James Kennedy, Yaojiang Shi, University of Kansas) Kennedy, John James (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, as well as the director of the Center for Experimental Economics in Education (CEEE Shi, Yaojiang (Professor of Economics and the director of the Northwest Socioeconomic Development Research Center (NSDRC), as well as the director of the Center for Experimental Economics in Education (CEEE), Professor of Economics and the director of the Northwest Socioeconomic Development Research Center (NSDRC), KENNEDY, Kennedy

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In 1979, the Chinese government famously introduced The Single Child Policy to control population growth. Nearly 40 years later, the result is an estimated 20 million "missing girls" in the population from 1980-2010. In Lost and Found, John James Kennedy and Yaojiang Shi focus on village-level implementation of the one-child policy and the level of mutual-noncompliance between officials and rural families. Through in-depth interviews with rural parents and local leaders, they reveal that many had strong incentives not to comply with the birth control policy because larger families meant increased labor and income. In this sober exploration of China's Single Child Policy throughout the reform period, the authors more broadly show how governance by grassroots cadres with greater local autonomy has affected China in the past and the challenges for resolving center-versus-locality contradictions in governance that lie ahead.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-07-18
Mått239 x 160 x 20 mm
Vikt550 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190917425

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John James Kennedy is Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas. He has consistently returned to China to conduct research on rural politics since 1994, and he is also co-founder of the Northwest Socioeconomic Development Research Center (NSDRC) at Shaanxi Normal University, Xian, China. His research is on local governance and social development in China; topics include local elections, tax reform, family planning, health care and the cadre management system. He has in a published in a variety of peer reviewed journals including The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Asian Survey, The Journal of Peasant Studies and Political Studies.Yaojiang Shi is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Experimental Economics in Education (CEEE) at Shaanxi Normal University, as well as Director of the Northwest Socioeconomic Development Research Center (NSDRC). He has been conducting regionalsurvey research and village case studies in rural China since 2002. His research focuses on rural public service provision, quality of rural health care and rural education. He has published in a variety of peer reviewed journals including The China Quarterly, Journal of Comparative Economics, Health Policy and Planning, British Medical Journal, and Asia Pacific Education Review.

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Counting the MissingChapter 1: Street Level Birth Control and Mutual NoncomplianceChapter 2: Historical Underreporting and the Identification of the "Missing Girls"Chapter 3: The Registration Challenge: Counting the Population from Imperial China to the People's Republic of ChinaChapter 4: Cadres' Voices: Birth Registration in the VillagesChapter 5: Villagers, Daughters, and the Voices of the "Missing"Conclusion: Lost and FoundAppendix Glossary of Chinese TermsReferencesIndex