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Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng´s China
Susan Greenhalgh
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Description for Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng´s China
Paperback. Explains how the leaders China decided to limit all couples to one child. This book focuses on the historic period 1978-80 and documents the manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles. Num Pages: 426 pages, 17 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHBD; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to limit all couples to one child. Focusing on the historic period 1978-80, when China was just reentering the global capitalist system after decades of self-imposed isolation, Greenhalgh documents the extraordinary manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles. ... Read more
China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to limit all couples to one child. Focusing on the historic period 1978-80, when China was just reentering the global capitalist system after decades of self-imposed isolation, Greenhalgh documents the extraordinary manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
426
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
582g
Number of Pages
426
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520253391
SKU
V9780520253391
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About Susan Greenhalgh
Susan Greenhalgh is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the coauthor of Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics and the author of Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain (UC Press).
Reviews for Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng´s China
"Compelling... Masterfully crafted... Just One Child is a bold, brilliant book."
Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University Historical Stds In The Natural Sciences "Greenhalgh is our most surefooted guide to China's adventure in mass birth planning ... As a study of scientific policy-making in China, Just One Child is without peer." Science (AAAS) "The first step in questioning the one-child policy ... Read more
Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University Historical Stds In The Natural Sciences "Greenhalgh is our most surefooted guide to China's adventure in mass birth planning ... As a study of scientific policy-making in China, Just One Child is without peer." Science (AAAS) "The first step in questioning the one-child policy ... Read more