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In 1979, the Chinese government famously introduced The Single Child Policy to control population growth. Nearly 40 years later, the result is an estimated 20 million "missing girls" in the population from 1980-2010. In Lost and Found, John James Kennedy and Yaojiang Shi focus on village-level implementation of the one-child policy and the level of mutual-noncompliance between officials and rural families. Through in-depth interviews with rural parents and local leaders, they reveal that many had strong incentives not to comply with the birth control policy because larger families meant increased labor and income. In this sober exploration of China's Single Child Policy throughout the reform period, the authors more broadly show how governance by grassroots cadres with greater local autonomy has affected China in the past and the challenges for resolving center-versus-locality contradictions in governance that lie ahead.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Counting the Missing
Chapter 1: Street Level Birth Control and Mutual Noncompliance
Chapter 2: Historical Underreporting and the Identification of the "Missing Girls"
Chapter 3: The Registration Challenge: Counting the Population from Imperial China to the People's Republic of China
Chapter 4: Cadres' Voices: Birth Registration in the Villages
Chapter 5: Villagers, Daughters, and the Voices of the "Missing"
Conclusion: Lost and Found
Appendix
Glossary of Chinese Terms
References
Index
