| | Family Planning Policy and Practice in China: A Study of Four Rural Counties | EconLit | JB |
| | 1989 | | Kaufman, Joan, et al. | Population and Development Review v15, n4 (December |
| | In 1987, the authors conducted a micro-level survey of the Chinese family planning program in rural |
| | Fujian and Heilongjiang provinces. Using survey data obtained from interviews with government and |
| | family planning officials and with a random sample of rural Chinese women, they shed light on |
| | variations in local implementation of the one-child policy and address claims of coercion. Although rural |
| | fertility has declined significantly in recent decades, data from four rural counties reveal low |
| | acceptance rates of the "one-child pledge" and lax imposition of fines for "unplanned" births, |
| | suggesting the existence of a de facto two-child policy. Examination of the characteristics of |
| | sterilization and IUD acceptors suggests that, while guidelines exist on what categories of women |
| | should receive sterilizations and IUDs, compliance with these guidelines is not mandatory. Most |
| | abortions reported by women in the survey resulted from contraceptive failure, usually with the IUD. |
| | |
| | (The Chinese family planning program is a rather intense subject here in the United States. Many |
| | Americans believe that the government should not be intervening into the families in China. This Article |
| | suggests that maybe the is not as bad as many people believe it to be.) |
| | The Sojourners: Returned Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China | JSTOR | RW |
| | 1989 | | Godley, Michael R. | Pacific Affairs |
| | This is an interesting cite giving an account of the traumatic experiences of Chinese people who |
| | settled outside of China and later returned to what they considered to be their homeland. During the |
| | Cultural Revolution, those "sojourners," who had settled mostly in South East Asia, faced not only |
| | suspicion, ridicule, false charges of being "spies," but also imprisonment in some cases. The cite is |
| | easy to follow and captivates your attention, pulling you through the turmoil of those who fled |
| | discrimination only to find that they could no longer avoid being discriminated against in their own |
| | native country. |
| | http://www.jstor.org/view/0030851x/dm992042/99p0223c/0 |
| | Land Reclamation in the Hills and along the Coast of Fujian: Recent History and | EconLit | JB |
| | 1990 | | Vermeer, Eduard B. | Remaking peasant China: Problems of rural development |
| | (this collective volume article does not have a provided abstract so the topic is somewhat of a mystery |
| | to me. I think that it may be rather interesting to find out who is reclaiming land from who.) |
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