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Title The Population of modern China / edited by Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and David Yaukey
Published New York : Plenum Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description xii, 757 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series The Plenum series on demographic methods and population analysis
Plenum series on demographic methods and population analysis.
Contents (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
(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
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.]
Analysis China
Population
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
SUBJECT China -- Population. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100866
Author Poston, Dudley L., 1940-
Yaukey, David.
LC no. 92015525
ISBN 0306441381 (paperback)
0306442353 (cloth)