Watering the Neighbour's Garden: The Growing Demographic Deficit in Asia

In the book's first chapter, Li Shuzhuo, Wei Yan, Jiang Quanbao, and Marcus W. Feldman start with the assertion that the phenomenon of missing girls "not only violates the rights of survival, participation and development for girl children, but also produces dangerously imbalanced sex rati...

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Published in:China Perspectives 2008 (2 (74)), p.117-118
Main Author: MILWERTZ, CECILIA
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Abortion
Economic reform
Females
Gender
Girls
Migration
Ratios
Sex discrimination
Sexes
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Summary:In the book's first chapter, Li Shuzhuo, Wei Yan, Jiang Quanbao, and Marcus W. Feldman start with the assertion that the phenomenon of missing girls "not only violates the rights of survival, participation and development for girl children, but also produces dangerously imbalanced sex ratios and concomitant demographic and social problems that threaten the long term stability and sustainable development of Chinese society" (p. 25). Bossen concludes that the reform period revival of patrilineal control over village land rights in combination with the implementation of a national birth control policy has contributed to an extreme shortage of daughters in rural China because sons secure family wealth.
ISSN:2070-3449
1996-4617