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Handbook of Population
Springer 2006; US$ 84.99Provides an overview of the issues, theories, processes, and applications of the social science of population studies. This work contains chapters on population size and growth, age and sex composition, marriage and family structure, and demographic analyses of gender, aging, race and ethnicity, and the labor force. more...
Gender Policy and HIV in China
Springer 2009; US$ 129.99China's concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat. This book presents perspectives ranging from criminology to social psychology to better understand how gender perspectives can inform HIV policy in the context of China. more...
The Chinese Triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 168.00The Chinese triangle of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan constitutes one of the most dynamic regions in the world economy. Since the late 1970s, these three societies have experienced increasing economic integration; however, studies aimed at analyzing and explaining this integration have often overlooked the very important role social institutions... more...
Population and Society
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 63.00Population and Society is ideal for undergraduate, as well as graduate, students taking their first course in demography. more...
Children for Families or Families for Children
Springer Fachmedien 2011; US$ 109.99Do adoptions provide children for families or families for children? This book analyzes the complex interactions between adopters and adoptees using historical and current data. Who are the preferred parents and children, both domestically and internationally? How do the types of adoptions-domestic adoptions, private and public through the foster care... more...
Healthy Longevity in China
Springer 2008; US$ 64.99China is aging at an extraordinary speed and has the largest quantity of elderly persons in the world. Scholars utilize this unprecedented living experience of human being and the unique Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) datasets with the aim to answer in this volume the following questions critical to the aging population world... more...
Fertility, Family Planning and Population Control in China
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 44.95China's one-child population policy, first initiated in 1979, has had an enormous effect on the country?s development. By reducing its fertility in the past two decades to less than two children per woman, and developing a family planning program focused heavily on sterilization and abortion, China has undergone a significant transition in status... more...
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