China’s demographic policy- choices and consequences – Wang Feng
From AsiaPacific Issues (in PDF form): Wang’s 12-page essay cites and documents facts essential to understanding earlier, present and likely future debates on this topic. Emphasizing the plurality of...
View ArticleChina in rural birth control bid – BBC
From BBC News: China is to bring in new financial incentives to encourage people in rural areas to have fewer children in another bid to control its rising population. From next year, parents in the...
View ArticleChina ‘to punish’ two-child rich – BBC
From BBC News: China is to introduce steps to punish famous and wealthy violators of its one-child policy, senior officials say. The move came in response to complaints from ordinary people that the...
View ArticleForecasting China and India’s Futures
The Telegraph’s International Business Editor, Ambrose Evans-Pitchard, compares two different pictures of the world in 2050 and the two giants’ places in it: The economies of China and India [according...
View ArticleOne-Child Policy Safe in Guangdong
Officials in Guangdong have reversed plans to ease the province’s family planning policy and allow certain couples to have two children. From China Daily: A document on family planning in Guangdong’s...
View ArticleExperts Challenge One-Child Population Claim
As the world’s human population approaches seven billion, demographers have attacked Chinese claims that its family planning policies delayed this landmark by five years. From The Associated Press: “I...
View ArticleReport: China Should End One-Child Policy
The Wall Street Journal reports that a think tank connected to China’s State Council has published a report recommending that the country should phase out its one-child policy, first by allowing two...
View ArticleOnline Poll Favors Ending One-Child Policy
David Wertime at Tea Leaf Nation analyzes the recent online poll that shows overwhelming support for ending the one-child policy among China’s weibo users: The debate on China’s one-child policy has...
View ArticleMinistry of Truth: Two-Child Policy
The following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) government authorities, has been leaked and distributed online....
View ArticleTwo-Child Policy?
The former head of China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission suggests that the government is considering a relaxation of its one-child policy in the face of an ageing population. From...
View ArticleOne-Child Policy Accused of Breeding Mistrust
An Australian study published last week attempts to quantify the psychological effects of the “one-child policy” on those born under it, who have often been disparaged as a generation of spoiled...
View ArticleIndia’s Chinese-Inspired “Two Child Norm”
While China’s family planning policies have long been controversial, India’s “rights-based” approach has won international praise. At The Globe and Mail, however, Stephanie Nolan reports that the two...
View ArticleMinitrue: Control Coverage, Commentary on Evictions
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source....
View ArticleSensitive Word of the Week: Low-end Population
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
View ArticleChina’s Population May Have Shrunk for First Time Since Great Leap Forward...
Updated at 21:21:47 PDT on Apr 27, 2021: This post has been updated to note doubts about the reportedly looming census figures. The latest Chinese census may reveal that China’s population has shrunk...
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