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Article: Fertility, Family Planning and Population Policy in China
- Article from:
- The China Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Fertility, Family Planning and Population Policy in China, edited by Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Che-Fu Lee, Chiung-Fang Chang, Sherry L. McKibben and Carol S. Walther. London: Routledge, 2006. xvi + 192 pp. £65.00 (hardcover).
A baby boom took place in many parts of the world following the end of the second World War. This, combined with rapid mortality decline, led to an extraordinary population growth. As a response to this change, family planning was promoted in many countries. Family planning began in China in the 1950s, although initially on a smaller scale, mainly in large cities, and was seriously interrupted first by a political campaign in the late 1950s and then in the early years of ...