Transition and Challenge: China's Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century

by Zhongwei Zhao, Fei Guo

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199299294
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2007
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Zhongwei Zhao and Fei Guo2. Family planning during the economic reform era, Weiguo Zhang and Xingshan Cao3. The politics of numbers: Fertility statistics in recent decades, Thomas Scharping4. Below replacement fertility in Mainland China, Zhigang Guo and Wei Chen5. Fertility transition in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Edward Jow-Ching Tu, Xin Yuan, and Xia Zhang6. Induced abortion and its demographic consequences, Wei Chen7. Child sex ratios and their regional variation, Yong Cai and William Lavely8. Recent changes in marriage patterns, Guangyu Zhang and Baochang Gu9. Poverty, progress, and rising life expectancy, Judith Banister10. Changing mortality patterns and causes of death, Zhongwei Zhao11. Population aging: Challenges, opportunities, and institutions, Wang Feng and Andrew Mason12. Internal migration: Policy changes, recent trends, and new challenges, Zai Liang13. The impact of temporary migration on migrant communities, Fei Guo14. The changing profile of labor migration, Kenneth Roberts15. Minorities: Cultural integration, family planning, and population changes, Isabelle Attané16. China's demography in perspective, John C. Caldwell and Zhongwei Zhao