Family planning in China. Analyses data documents

This volume contains four essays by various authors on aspects of family planning in China. The first is on Chinas assumption of legislative responsibility for family planning. The second is on Chinas one-child policy from 1978 to 1994 and covers the policys goals its development and its changing applications as well as enforcement problems evaluation public reactions and demographic impact. The third is a detailed study of the one-child policy as implemented in the province of Heilongjiang and its capital Harbin. The fourth essay discusses the relatively small role played by the one-child policy in the literature by Chinese female writers. An appendix containing 13 documents is included; they are translated texts of the one-child laws as implemented in various administrative entities in China.