"This is a seminal contribution to policy making as a subject of
anthropological study. But to say only this would obscure the often
gripping and intricate story of Chinese expert politics, where
rocket scientists seized the initiative in defining historic
demographic policy. Only a master ethnographer like Greenhalgh
could capture it all."--George Marcus, author of "Ethnography
through Thick and Thin"
"China's 'one child' policy is often dismissed in the West as the
misguided work of an alien civilization with fundamentally flawed
conceptions of human rights. Greenhalgh shows how, on the contrary,
it was scientific aspirations and a thirst for high-tech
rationality, imported from the military to the civilian sphere,
that co-produced this particular excess of planning in the post-Mao
era. This is not just a devastating critique of Chinese population
policy, but a thought-provoking look at the dark side of the
politics of science."--Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University
"'One child.' With those two words, China launched one of the
largest political, biological, and social upheavals of modern
times. In a remarkably researched and thoughtful book, Susan
Greenhalgh approaches this decades-long struggle armed with
political science, anthropology, and science studies. The result is
a book to be reckoned with in all these disciplines."--Peter L.
Galison, Harvard University
"This is a superb work of scholarship, fundamentally altering our
knowledge of one of the most important policies ever made in the
People's Republic of China, and the ways we go about knowing China.
First, it is by far the most detailed study of the origins of one
of the most controversial, significant, wide-ranging, and as the
study makes clear, least understood decisions of the post-Mao China
political system. China's one-child family policy is rarely treated
with detachment, and its origins have been obscured. This book is
likely to be the definitive study on their origins. Second, the
mode of analysis-an ethnography of elite decision-making combined
with the science studies literature and elements of theories
popular in anthropology and critical studies yields insights
political scientists were not likely to have come up when employing
the tools of their discipline. The book thus becomes an important
case for the use of such modes of analysis in and of themselves,
and opens new possibilities in how policy studies in China might be
done. Third, beyond the specifics of how the one-child policy came
into being and the mode of analysis, the book provides broader
contributions on the nature of policy-making, agenda setting, uses
of rhetoric, and how elements of the political culture affect the
political system in China. The overall book is exemplary in all
respects."--David Bachman, University of Washington
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