Transition and Challenge

China's Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-929929-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 716 g

With the largest population in the world, China has experienced significant demographic, social, and economic changes in recent decades. Extraordinary demographic changes took place in China in the second half of the twentieth century having wide-ranging consequences. This book, written by a group of leading experts, examines these profound changes in an effort to understand their long term impact and provide an up-to-date account of China's demographic reality. The volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of a wide range of issues such as China's unprecedented family planning program, the impact of falling birth rates coupled with increasing life expectancy, changes in marriage patterns, and increasing rural-urban migration. Anyone who is interested in China and its recent demographic changes will benefit from the rich materials and thorough analysis provided in this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhao, Zhongwei

Guo, Fei

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Zhongwei Zhao and Fei Guo: Introduction

- 2: Weiguo Zhang and Xingshan Cao: Family planning during the economic reform era

- 3: Thomas Scharping: The politics of numbers: Fertility statistics in recent decades

- 4: Zhigang Guo and Wei Chen: Below replacement fertility in Mainland China

- 5: Edward Jow-Ching Tu, Xin Yuan, and Xia Zhang: Fertility transition in Hong Kong and Taiwan

- 6: Wei Chen: Induced abortion and its demographic consequences

- 7: Yong Cai and William Lavely: Child sex ratios and their regional variation

- 8: Guangyu Zhang and Baochang Gu: Recent changes in marriage patterns

- 9: Judith Banister: Poverty, progress, and rising life expectancy

- 10: Zhongwei Zhao: Changing mortality patterns and causes of death

- 11: Wang Feng and Andrew Mason: Population aging: Challenges, opportunities, and institutions

- 12: Zai Liang: Internal migration: Policy changes, recent trends, and new challenges

- 13: Fei Guo: The impact of temporary migration on migrant communities

- 14: Kenneth Roberts: The changing profile of labor migration

- 15: Isabelle Attané: Minorities: Cultural integration, family planning, and population changes

- 16: John C. Caldwell and Zhongwei Zhao: China's demography in perspective

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Zhongwei Zhao is a demographer. He is a Senior Fellow at the Demography and Sociology Program, the Australian National University, and a Bye-Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. Prior to taking up the present appointment, he worked at University of Cambridge, the Australian National University, University of New South Wales, the East-West Centre of Hawaii and Peking University. He received a PhD from University of Cambridge.

Dr. Fei Guo is a Senior Lecturer in demography at the Macquarie University, Australia. She received her postgraduate education, with a Ph.D. in Sociology, from the University of Hawaii and the East-West Center, and was an Andrew Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. Before joining Macquarie, she was a researcher at the University of Wollongong, Australia.