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Author:   Zhongwei Zhao (The Australian National University) ,  Fei Guo (Macquarie University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.685kg
ISBN:  

9780199299294

ISBN 10:   0199299293
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   22 February 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Zhongwei Zhao and Fei Guo: Introduction 2: Weiguo Zhang and Xingshan Cao: Family planning during the economic reform era 3: Thomas Scharping: The politics of numbers: Fertility statistics in recent decades 4: Zhigang Guo and Wei Chen: Below replacement fertility in Mainland China 5: Edward Jow-Ching Tu, Xin Yuan, and Xia Zhang: Fertility transition in Hong Kong and Taiwan 6: Wei Chen: Induced abortion and its demographic consequences 7: Yong Cai and William Lavely: Child sex ratios and their regional variation 8: Guangyu Zhang and Baochang Gu: Recent changes in marriage patterns 9: Judith Banister: Poverty, progress, and rising life expectancy 10: Zhongwei Zhao: Changing mortality patterns and causes of death 11: Wang Feng and Andrew Mason: Population aging: Challenges, opportunities, and institutions 12: Zai Liang: Internal migration: Policy changes, recent trends, and new challenges 13: Fei Guo: The impact of temporary migration on migrant communities 14: Kenneth Roberts: The changing profile of labor migration 15: Isabelle Attané: Minorities: Cultural integration, family planning, and population changes 16: John C. Caldwell and Zhongwei Zhao: China's demography in perspective

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Dr. Zhongwei Zhao is a demographer. He is a Senior Fellow at the Demography and Sociology Program, the Australian National University, and a Bye-Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. Prior to taking up the present appointment, he worked at University of Cambridge, the Australian National University, University of New South Wales, the East-West Centre of Hawaii and Peking University. He received a PhD from University of Cambridge. Dr. Fei Guo is a Senior Lecturer in demography at the Macquarie University, Australia. She received her postgraduate education, with a Ph.D. in Sociology, from the University of Hawaii and the East-West Center, and was an Andrew Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. Before joining Macquarie, she was a researcher at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

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