Susan Greenhalgh Bücher

Explains how the leaders China decided to limit all couples to one child. This book focuses on the historic period 1978-80 and documents the manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles.

In this collection of essays, which draws on new ethnographic and historical research and a variety of theoretical approaches, ten anthropologists and two historians indicate some of the ways in which demography might take into account historical processes, political forces, and cultural conceptions.