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Transition and Challenge Zhongwei Zhao (The Australian National University)

Transition and Challenge By Zhongwei Zhao (The Australian National University)

Transition and Challenge by Zhongwei Zhao (The Australian National University)

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With the largest population in the world, China has experienced significant demographic, social, and economic changes in recent decades. This book examines these profound changes and not only provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of China's demographic reality, but also looks at how China's population has altered the global landscape.

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Transition and Challenge: China's Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Zhongwei Zhao (The Australian National University)

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.

About Zhongwei Zhao (The Australian National University)

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 ; 2. Family planning during the economic reform era ; 3. The politics of numbers: Fertility statistics in recent decades ; 4. Below replacement fertility in Mainland China ; 5. Fertility transition in Hong Kong and Taiwan ; 6. Induced abortion and its demographic consequences ; 7. Child sex ratios and their regional variation ; 8. Recent changes in marriage patterns ; 9. Poverty, progress, and rising life expectancy ; 10. Changing mortality patterns and causes of death ; 11. Population aging: Challenges, opportunities, and institutions ; 12. Internal migration: Policy changes, recent trends, and new challenges ; 13. The impact of temporary migration on migrant communities ; 14. The changing profile of labor migration ; 15. Minorities: Cultural integration, family planning, and population changes ; 16. China's demography in perspective

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NPB9780199299294
9780199299294
0199299293
Transition and Challenge: China's Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century by Zhongwei Zhao (The Australian National University)
Zhongwei Zhao (The Australian National University)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press
2007-02-22
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