China
Subtitle: The Many Facets of Demographic Change (Brown University Studies in Population and Development)
Contributors: Alice Goldstein (Editor); Feng Wang (Editor)
Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
Published: September 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780813390024
Subjects: Development studies; Economic theory & philosophy; Population & demography; Sociology; Demography; China; Social Science; Demographic transition; Population
Description: At no time in the twentieth century has a nation witnessed demographic changes as dramatic as those in the People's Republic of China. In a time span of less than thirty years, China completed a transition from a premodern to a modern demographic regime. Drawing on a variety of data sources, the authors examine the demographic changes in depth in the context of their relation to socioeconomic change and shifts in state policies.

In particular, they focus on the reform era of the 1980s when China moved from a socialist to a market economy.