Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 … China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches …

"As the most populous country in the world, China's demographic challenges have always been too many people for … ecological system, resources, and the environment. However, by the early 1990s, fertility rate in China had dropped below the … replacement level, and China's low fertility has now attracted the world's attention. This book is among the first studies to …

Introduction -- China's recent demographic history -- Controlling fertility through birth planning policies -- Mobility …