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Governing China's Population - From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics (Paperback)
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Governing China's Population - From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics (Paperback)
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China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide
attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth
limits, and because of the striking changes that have occurred in
China's population: one of the fastest fertility declines in modern
history and a gender gap among infants that is the highest in the
world. These changes have contributed to an imminent crisis of
social security for a rapidly aging population, provoking concern
in China and abroad. What political processes underlie these
population shifts? What is the political significance of population
policy for the PRC regime, the Chinese people, and China's place in
the world? The book documents the gradual "governmentalization" of
China's population after 1949, a remarkable buildup of capacity for
governance by the regime, the professions, and individuals. Since
the turn of the millennium the regime has initiated a drastic shift
from "hard" Leninist methods of birth planning toward "soft"
neoliberal approaches involving indirect regulation by the state
and self-regulation by citizens themselves. Population policy, once
a lagging sector in China's transition from communism, is now
helping lead the country toward more modern and internationally
accepted forms of governance. Governing China's Population tells
the story of these shifts, from the perspectives of both regime and
society, based on internal documents, long-term fieldwork, and
interviews with a wide range of actors-policymakers and
implementers, propagandists and critics, compliers and resisters.
This study also illuminates the far-reaching consequences for
China's society and politics of deep state intrusion in individual
reproduction. Like Mao's Great Leap Forward, Deng's one-child
policy has created vast social suffering and human trauma. Yet
power over population has also been positive and productive,
promoting China's global rise by creating new kinds of "quality"
persons equipped to succeed in the world economy. Politically, the
PRC's population project has strengthened the regime and created a
whole new field of biopolitics centering on the production and
cultivation of life itself. Drawing on approaches from political
science and anthropology that are rarely combined, this book
develops a new kind of interdisciplinary inquiry that expands the
domain of the political in provocative ways. The book provides
fresh answers to broad questions about China's Leninist transition,
regime capacity, "science" and "democracy," and the changing shape
of Chinese modernity.
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