Lost and Found - The "Missing Girls" in Rural China (Hardcover)

In 1979, the Chinese government famously introduced The Single Child Policy to control population growth. Nearly 40 years later, the result is an estimated 20 million "missing girls" in the population from 1980-2010. In Lost and Found, John James Kennedy and Yaojiang Shi focus on village-level implementation of the one-child policy and the level of mutual-noncompliance between officials and rural families. Through in-depth interviews with rural parents and local leaders, they reveal that many had strong incentives not to comply with the birth control policy because larger families meant increased labor and income. In this sober exploration of China's Single Child Policy throughout the reform period, the authors more broadly show how governance by grassroots cadres with greater local autonomy has affected China in the past and the challenges for resolving center-versus-locality contradictions in governance that lie ahead.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2019
Authors:	John James Kennedy (Professor of Political Science) • Yaojiang Shi (Professor of Economics and the director of the Northwest Socioeconomic Development Research Center (NSDRC), as well as the director of the Center for Experimental Economics in Education (CEEE))
Dimensions:	236 x 162 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-091742-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-091742-3
Barcode:	9780190917425

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