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| Dimensions: 6'' x 9'' |
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| 196 pages |
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AEI Press
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| Publication Date: August 1990 |
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| Hardcover |
| ISBN: 0844737038 |
| Price: $ 24.75 |
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The author traces the one-child-per-family population control policy in China, using Chinese documents--many translated here for the first time--as primary documents.
Between 1971 and 1985 some 379 million birth control surgeries were performed as part of China's effort to limit population growth. Central authorities demanded that all women of childbearing age with one child have IUDs inserted, all couples with two children be sterilized, and all unauthorized pregnancies be terminated.
Yet family planning advocates who claim to be opposed to coercion have held up the Chinese program as an example for other countries. Slaughter of the Innocents traces this draconian policy--both public and covert--as it has sought to limit the Chinese population to 1.2 billion by the year 2000.
John S. Aird is former senior research specialist on China at the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Table of Contents
Preface
The Coercion Controversy
Birth Control in China, 1949-1983
The Confusing Signals of Party Document No. 7
Party Document No. 13 and the Crackdown
Conclusions
Appendix A
Appendix B
Notes
Glossary
Abbreviations
Index
