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SUMMARY:Impact of Birth Control Policy and Market Reform on Family Life and Fertility Trends in Rural China
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 	Presented by Professor Hong Zhang, Colby Collage, 
 Department of East Asian Studies.\n
 	Most 
 studies on China's stringent birth control 
 policy on rural China in the past three decades 
 have focused on the resistance framework. 
 Few have looked into whether Chinese peasant 
 families are redefining and adapting their fertility 
 behaviors due to both their interaction 
 with the state policy and their experience 
 of the rapidly changing social and economic 
 environments in reform-era China. Based on the 
 recent ethnographic study in a central China 
 village (2002-2010), this presentation seeks 
 to explore new fertility trends that indicate 
 the shift from "active resistance against" 
 to "conscious decision for" 
 the one-child limit among rural families. 
 In particular, this study discusses the newly 
 emerging social, economic, and demographic 
 factors that may have played a role in this 
 new fertility shift, and the social implications 
 of this fertility shift to the central tenet 
 of son preference in Chinese culture, changing 
 parent-daughter relations, new marriage 
 patterns among the cohorts impacted by birth 
 control policy, and the challenge to the norm 
 of child-rearing as a means of securing old 
 age support among rural families.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Asian Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://asianstudies.msu.edu/\n
LOCATION:303 International Center
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