Economic Reforms and Fertility Behaviour: A Study of a Northern Chinese Village (China Library) - Softcover

Zhang, Weiguo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138993271 ISBN 13: 9781138993273

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Based on an intensive fieldwork in a southern Hebei village in northern China (1992/3), the author takes an institutional approach and focuses on the way deliberate Chinese state policies driven by new economic and social agendas since the late 1970s have impacted on marriage, family relations and consequently on the way fertility trends have been adversely affected; the study is also very much concerned with the human dimension and the way in which such social and economic changes are perceived and applied in a rural community. The research presented in this study goes a long way to unravelling the puzzle concerning the reasons for a very rapid decline in Chinese fertility rates, contrasting sharply with a very different fertility transition within western cultures.

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Weiguo Zhang

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138993271
• ISBN 13: 9781138993273
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292