Shifts in Reproductive Patterns in China
dc.contributor.author | Ting, Tih-Fen | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-08T21:30:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-08T21:30:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004-03 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Ting, Tih-Fen; (2004). "Shifts in Reproductive Patterns in China." Population and Environment 25(4): 299-317. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43503> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0199-0039 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-7810 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43503 | |
dc.description.abstract | The People's Republic of China, during the second half of the twentieth century, has been repeatedly affected by social and political upheavals associated with government policies. These have produced strong but unexpected impacts on Chinese demographic patterns. Many of these policies are of the sorts that alter reproductive costs and benefits. This study examines patterns in Hebei, Shaanxi, and Shanghai, three provinces with differing ecological, geographic, and economic characteristics. Government policies affected the three populations differentially; this was evident at both aggregate and individual levels. The Great Leap Forward and subsequent famine created higher birth deficits and mortality among the largely rural populations of Hebei and Shaanxi than the more urban Shanghai. In contrast, the Cultural Revolution and family planning resulted in lower fertility levels for women in Shanghai. The population history of China during the second half of last century thus reflects strong state interventions in the lives of its citizens. Government policies, along with regional variations in geographic, social, and economic conditions, strongly influence individual access to resources in China. Variations in timing and intensity of women's reproductive patterns reflect differential access to resources and subsequent trade-offs. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Demography | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Geography | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Public Health/Gesundheitswesen | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Population Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Community & Environmental Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | China | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Population | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Fertility | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Mortality | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Government Policies | en_US |
dc.title | Shifts in Reproductive Patterns in China | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Population and Demography | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan. University of Illinois at Springfield, U.S.A | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43503/1/11111_2004_Article_489375.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:POEN.0000036482.11185.46 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Population and Environment | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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