Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : population as politics
  • Problematique : governmentalization of population
  • The Mao era : from soft birth control to hard birth planning
  • The Deng era : rising enforcement of hard birth planning
  • The Jiang era : deepening reform of hard birth planning
  • The Hu era : from comprehensive reform to social policy
  • The shifting local politics of population
  • Restratifying Chinese society
  • Remaking China's politics and global position
  • Conclusion: Lenin, Foucault, and the governance of population in China.