Demographic Transition in China: Fertility Trends since the 1950s

by Peng Xizhe

This book documents and analyses fertility and demographic trends in China since the early 1950s, focusing particularly on previously undocumented provincial and rural-urban diversities; it also analyses China's current reform on population control together with future developments. Previous
investigations of fertility transitions in the People's Republic of China have almost all been carried out at a national level. The author of this book, however, is a Chinese citizen and has had access to local data not available to foreigner researchers. This study will be of interest to
demographers, scholars in population studies and Chinese studies.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published September 12, 1991