Reproductive Realities In Modern China

Author : Sarah Mellors Rodriguez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009027137

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Reproductive Realities in Modern China by Sarah Mellors Rodriguez Pdf

Lasting from 1979 to 2015, China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date and considered emblematic of global efforts to regulate population growth during the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and oral history, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez analyses how ordinary people, particularly women, navigated China's shifting fertility policies before and during the One Child Policy era. She examines the implementation and reception of these policies and reveals that they were often contradictory and unevenly enforced, as men and women challenged, reworked, and co-opted state policies to suit their own needs. By situating the One Child Policy within the longer history of birth control and abortion in China, Reproductive Realities in Modern China exposes important historical continuities, such as the enduring reliance on abortion as contraception and the precariousness of state control over reproduction.

Author : Sarah Mellors Rodriguez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316515310

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Reproductive Realities in Modern China by Sarah Mellors Rodriguez Pdf

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez explores how ordinary people navigated China's shifting fertility policies before and during the One Child Policy era.

Author : Dudley L. Poston Jr.,David Yaukey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489912312

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The Population of Modern China by Dudley L. Poston Jr.,David Yaukey Pdf

Student~ interested in world populations and demography inevitably need to know China. As the most populous country of the world, China occupies a unique position in the world population system. How its population is shaped by the intricate interplays among factors such as its political ideology and institutions, economic reality, government policies, sociocultural traditions, and ethnic divergence represents at once a fascinating and challenging arena for investigatIon and analysis. Yet, for much of the 20th century, while population studies have developed into a mature science, precise information and sophisticated analysis about the Chinese population had largely remained either lacking or inaccessible, first because of the absence of systematic databases due to almost uninterrupted strife and wars, and later because the society was closed to the outside observers for about three decades since 1949. Since the end of the Cultural Revolution, things have dramatically changed. China has embarked on an ambitious reform program where modernization became the utmost goal of societal mobilization. China could no longer afford to rely on imprecise census or survey information for population-related studies and policy planning, nor to remaining closed to the outside world. Both the gathering of more precise information and access to such information have dramatically increased in the 1980s. Systematic observations, analyses and reporting about the Chinese population have surfaced in the population literature around the globe.

Author : Rana Mitter
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191578793

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Modern China: A Very Short Introduction by Rana Mitter Pdf

China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short Introduction offers the reader with no previous knowledge of China a variety of ways to understand the world's most populous nation, giving a short, integrated picture of modern Chinese society, culture, economy, politics and art. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Helen Foster Snow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Women
ISBN : 3111180379

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Women in Modern China by Helen Foster Snow Pdf

Author : William A. Joseph
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197683200

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Politics in China by William A. Joseph Pdf

Politics in China is an authoritative introduction to how the world's second most populous nation and rapidly rising global power is governed today. Written by leading China scholars, each chapter offers an accessible overview of a key topic in Chinese politics. The fourth edition of Politics in China has been thoroughly updated and includes a new chapter on the rise and rule of Xi Jinping. It is essential reading not only for students studying the PRC, but also for any reader interested in learning how China has evolved in recent times, how its political system works, and about the most important challenges it faces in years ahead.

Author : Susan L. Mann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139502481

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Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History by Susan L. Mann Pdf

Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. How did these and other late imperial legacies shape twentieth-century notions of gender and sexuality in modern China? Susan Mann answers this by focusing on state policy, ideas about the physical body and notions of sexuality and difference in China's recent history, from medicine to the theater to the gay bars; from law to art and sports. More broadly, the book shows how changes in attitudes toward sex and gender in China during the twentieth century have cast a new light on the process of becoming modern, while simultaneously challenging the universalizing assumptions of Western modernity.

Author : David Ownby,Vincent Goossaert,Ji Zhe,Chi Che
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190494568

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Making Saints in Modern China by David Ownby,Vincent Goossaert,Ji Zhe,Chi Che Pdf

Each chapter of this book offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of his or her rise to sainthood over the course of China's twentieth century. Throughout, emphasis is on the creative and largely successful strategies deployed in the face of state indifference or hostility.

Author : Jing-Bao Nie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0742523713

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Behind the Silence by Jing-Bao Nie Pdf

Behind the Silence is the first in-depth work in any language to explore the diverse perspectives of mainland Chinese regarding induced abortion and fetal life in the context of the world's most ambitious and intrusive family planning program. Through his investigation of public silence, official standpoints, forgotten controversies from the imperial era, popular opinions, women's personal stories, doctors' narratives, and the problem of coerced abortion, Nie Jing-Bao brings to light a surprising range of beliefs concerning fetal life and the morality of abortion, yet finds overall an acceptance of national population policies. China's internal plurality, the author argues, must be taken seriously if the West is to open a fruitful cross-cultural dialogue. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Judith Banister,Christina Wu Harbaugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Birth control
ISBN : UOM:39015034871858

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China's Family Planning Program by Judith Banister,Christina Wu Harbaugh Pdf

Author : P l Ny¡ri,Joana Breidenbach
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9637326146

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China Inside Out by P l Ny¡ri,Joana Breidenbach Pdf

The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a much-needed perspective on area studies, a perspective that is attentive to both manifestations of "traditional culture" and the new global relationships in which they are being played out. The authors shake off the shackles of the orientalist legacy but retain a close reading of local processes. They challenge the boundaries of China and question its study from different perspectives, but believe that area studies have a role to play if their geographies are studied according to certain common problems. In the case of China, the book shows the diverse array of critical but solidly grounded research approaches that can be used in studying a society. Its approach neither trivializes nor dismisses the elusive effects of culture, and it pays attention to both the state and the multiplicity of voices that challenge it.

Author : Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520300460

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Intimate Communities by Nicole Elizabeth Barnes Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites’ conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country. These bonds transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language.

Author : Gail Hershatter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520098565

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Women in China's Long Twentieth Century by Gail Hershatter Pdf

“An important and much-needed introduction to this rich and fast-growing field. Hershatter has handled a daunting task with aplomb.” —Susan L. Glosser, author of Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953

Author : Denise Y. Ho
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108417952

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Curating Revolution by Denise Y. Ho Pdf

Curating Revolution examines how Mao-era exhibitions shaped popular understandings of, and participation in, the political campaigns of China's Communist revolution.

Author : Thomas Poell,David B. Nieborg,Brooke Erin Duffy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509540525

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Platforms and Cultural Production by Thomas Poell,David B. Nieborg,Brooke Erin Duffy Pdf

The widespread uptake of digital platforms – from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and TikTok – is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways. Longstanding media industries are experiencing tremendous upheaval, while new industrial formations – live-streaming, social media influencing, and podcasting, among others – are evolving at breakneck speed. Poell, Nieborg, and Duffy explore both the processes and the implications of platformization across the cultural industries, identifying key changes in markets, infrastructures, and governance at play in this ongoing transformation, as well as pivotal shifts in the practices of labor, creativity, and democracy. The authors foreground three particular industries – news, gaming, and social media creation – and also draw upon examples from music, advertising, and more. Diverse in its geographic scope, Platforms and Cultural Production builds on the latest research and accounts from across North America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and China to reveal crucial differences and surprising parallels in the trajectories of platformization across the globe. Offering a novel conceptual framework grounded in illuminating case studies, this book is essential for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to understand how the institutions and practices of cultural production are transforming – and what the stakes are for understanding platform power.