Just One Child Science and Policy in Deng's China

Name: Just One Child Science and Policy in Deng's China
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ISBN: 9780520253391

ISBN-10: 0520253396

ISBN-13: 9780520253391

Edition: 2008

Authors: Susan Greenhalgh

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China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to limit all couples to one child. Focusing on the historic period 1978-80, when China was just reentering the global capitalist system after decades of self-imposed isolation, Greenhalgh documents the extraordinary manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles. "Just One Child" situates these science- and…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/13/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 426
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Susan Greenhalgh is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. She is the author of Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain , Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China , and Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China . She is coauthor of Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics .



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction: An Anthropology of Science Making and Policymaking



History: The "Ideology" Before the "Science"


Making Population Science



A Chinese Marxian Statistics of Population



A Sinified Cybernetics of Population



A Chinese Marxian Humanism of Population


Making Population Policy



The Scientific Revolution in Chengdu



Ally Recruitment in Beijing



Scientific Policymaking in Zhongnanhai



Conclusion: Why an Epistemic Approach Matters


Notes


List of Interviews


References


Index