Fertility trends, sex ratios, and son preference among Han and minority households in rural China

References

• Attane, Isabelle. 2009. “The Determinants of Discrimination against Daughters in China: Evidence from a Provincial-Level Analysis.” Population Studies 63 (1):87–102. doi: 10.1080/00324720802535023.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bernard, Russell H. 2006. Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bernardi, Laura, and Inge Hutter. 2007. “The Anthropological Demography of Europe.” Demographic Research 17:541–566. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.18.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cai, Yong. 2010. “China’s Below-Replacement Fertility: Government Policy or Socioeconomic Development?” Population and Development Review 36 (3):419–440. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2010.00341.x.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cai, Yong. 2013. “China’s New Demographic Reality: Learning from the 2010 Census.” Population and Development Review 39 (3):371–396. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00608.x.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cai, Yong and William Laveley. 2007. “Child Sex Ratios and their Regional Variation.” In Transition and Challenge: China’s Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century, edited by Zhongwei Zhao and Fei Guo, 108–123. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Chinese National Bureau of Statistics. 2012. China 2010 Population Census. Beijing: China Statistics Press.
   Google Scholar
• Chinese National Bureau of Statistics. 2017. Li Xiru: 2017 nian woguo quanmian lianghai zhengce xiaoguo jixu xianxian [Li Xiru: In 2017 the Effects of the Two-Child Policy Continue to Become Apparent]. Beijing: NBS.
   Google Scholar
• Chinese National People’s Congress. 2001. Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Hunyin fa [Marriage Law of the People’s Republic of China, Amended]. Beijing: NPC.
   Google Scholar
• Chinese National People’s Congress. 2003, 1985. Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Jicheng fa [Succession Law of the People’s Republic of China]. Beijing: NPC.
   Google Scholar
• Chinese National People’s Congress. 2015. Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Renkou yu Jihua Shengyu fa [Population and Family Planning Law of the People’s Republic of China]. Beijing: NPC.
   Google Scholar
• Chu, Junhong. 2001. “Prenatal Sex Determination and Sex-Selective Abortion in Rural Central China.” Population and Development Review 27 (2):259–281. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2001.00259.x.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dao, Chenghua. 2006. “Dehong Daizu hunyin xisu yu shehui wenhua de guanxi” [The Marriage Custom of the Dai Nationality in Dehong and Its Relation with Its Society and Culture]. Journal of Yunnan University of the Nationalities 23 (3): 6–20.
   Google Scholar
• Das Gupta, Monica, Jiang Zhenghua, Li Bohua, Xie Zhenming, Woojin Chung, and Bae Hwa-Ok. 2003. “Why Is Son Preference so Persistent in East and South Asia? A Cross-Country Study of China, India, and the Republic of Korea.” Journal of Development Studies 40 (2):153–187. doi: 10.1080/00220380412331293807.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ding, Qu Jian, and Therese Hesketh. 2006. “Family Size, Fertility Preferences, and Sex ratio in China in the Era of the One Child Family Policy: Results From National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Survey.” BMJ 333 (7564):371–373. doi: 10.1136/bmj.38775.672662.80.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Du, Shanshan. 2002. Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs: Gender Unity and Gender Equality among the Lahu of Southwestern China. New York: Columbia University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Ebrey, Patricia B. 1996. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Fei, Xiaotong. 2006. Xiangtu Zhongguo [From the Soil]. Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Press.
   Google Scholar
• Fong, Vanessa L. 2002. “One-Child Policy and Empowerment of Urban Daughters.” American Anthropologist 104 (4):1098–1109. “China’s doi: 10.1525/aa.2002.104.4.1098.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fricke, Tomas. 1997. “Culture Theory and Demographic Process: Towards a Thicker Demography.” In Anthropological Demography: Towards a New Synthesis, edited by David Kertzer and Thomas Fricke, 248–277. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Goodburn, Charlotte. 2014. “Rural-Urban Migration and Gender Disparities in Child Healthcare in China and India.” Development and Change 45 (4):631–655. doi: 10.1111/dech.12098.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Greenhalgh, Susan. 1994. “Controlling Births and Bodies in Village China.” American Ethnologist 21 (1):1–30. doi: 10.1525/ae.1994.21.1.02a00010.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Greenhalgh, Susan, ed. 1995. Situating Fertility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Greenhalgh, Susan. 2013. “Patriarchal Demographics: China’s Sex Ratio Reconsidered.” Population and Development Review 38:130–149. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00556.x.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Greenhalgh, Susan and Edwin A. Winckler. 2005. Governing China’s Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gu, Baochang, Feng Wang, Zhigang Guo, and Erli Zhang. 2007. “China’s Local and National Fertility Policies at the End of the Twentieth Century.” Population and Development Review 33 (1):129–147. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2007.00161.x.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Guilmoto, Christophe Z. 2009. “The Sex Ratio Transition in Asia.” Population and Development Review 35 (3):519–549. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00295.x.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harrell, Stevan. 2001. Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hu, Angang, 2003. “Yige Zhongguo, sige shijie: Zhongguo diqu fazhan chayu de bupingdengxing” [One China, Four Worlds: The Inequality of Uneven Regional Development in China]. In Di’erci Zhuanxing: Guojia Zhidu Jianshe [the Second Transformation: The Construction of National Institutions], edited by Angang Hu, Shaoguang Wang, and Jianming Zhou. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 49–58.
   Google Scholar
• Jankowiak, William R., and Robert L. Moore. 2017. Family Life in China. Malden, MA: Polity Press.
   Google Scholar
• Jin, Xiaoyi, Lige Liu, Yan Li, Marcus W. Feldman, and Shuzhuo Li. 2013. “Bare Branches’ and the Marriage Market in Rural China: Preliminary Evidence from a village-level survey.” Chinese Sociological Review 46 (1):83–104. doi: 10.2753/CSA2162-0555460104.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kim, Sung Won, and Vanessa L. Fong. 2014. “A Longitudinal Study of Son and Daughter Preference among Chinese Only-Children from Adolescence to Adulthood.” The China Journal 71:1–26. doi: 10.1086/674551.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Li, Yixuan. 2014. “Liangshan Yizu qinshu zhidu de renxing yu qishi [The Persistence and Revelation of Yi Nationality’s Kinship System in Liangshan].” Doctoral Dissertation, Central Minzu University.
   Google Scholar
• Ling, Minhua. 2017. “Precious Son, Reliable Daughter: Redefining Son Preference and Parent-Child Relations in Migrant Households in Urban China.” The China Quarterly 229:150–171. doi: 10.1017/S0305741016001570.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liu, Xi. 2008. “Lun Shaoshu Minzu Hunyin Duoyangxing yu Woguo Hunyinfa de Chongtu yu Tiaoshi [The Conflicts and Adaptations between the Diversified-Marriages in Ethnic Minorities and the Chinese Marriage Law].” Journal of Tibet Nationalities University 29 (1):63–69.
   Google Scholar
• Löfstedt, Petra, Luo Shusheng, and Annika Johansson. 2004. “Abortion Patterns and Reported Sex Ratios at Birth in Rural Yunnan, China.” Reproductive Health Matters 12 (24):86–95.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Loh, Charis, and Elizabeth J. Remick. 2015. “China’s Skewed Sex Ratio and the One-Child Policy.” The China Quarterly 222:295–319. doi: 10.1017/S0305741015000375.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lu, Xiaoping. 2009. “Liangshan Yizu chuantong hunyin xiguanfa yu woguo hunyinfa de chongtu yu xietiao yanjiu [A Study of Conflict and Coordination Between Traditional Marriage Custom Law and of Yi nationality in Liangshan and Marriage Law in Our Country]” MA Thesis, Southwest University of Political Science and Law.
   Google Scholar
• Ma, Haiyun, and Ting Liu. 2009. “Lun Huizu Hunyin Jiating Xiguanfa yu Guojiafa de Tiaoshi – yi Yunnan Weishan Huihuideng Cun Weili [The Adaptation to the Chinese Marriage Law in Hui Nationality: A Case Study in Weishan Huihuideng Village, Yunnan Province].” Journal of Hui Muslim Minority Studies 73:135–139.
   Google Scholar
• Ma, Jianxiong. 2011. “Marriage and Land Property: Bilateral Non-Lineal Kinship and Communal Authority of the Lahu on the Southwest Yunnan Frontier, China.” South East Asia Research 19 (3):495–536. doi: 10.5367/sear.2011.0059.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Miles, Matthew B., A. Michael Huberman, and Saldana Johnny. 2013. Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Murphy, Rachel, Ran Tao, and Xi Lu. 2011. “Son Preference in Rural China: Patrilineal Families and Socioeconomic Change.” Population and Development Review 37 (4):665–690.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Neuendorf, Kimberly A. 2001. The Content Analysis Guidebook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Nie, Jing-Bao. 2010. “Limits of State Intervention in Sex-Selective Abortion: The Case of China.” Culture, Health and Sexuality 12 (2):205–219. doi: 10.1080/13691050903108431.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Patton, Michael Q. 2002. Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods. 3rd. ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Philipov, Dimiter, and Laura Bernardi 2011. “Concepts and Operationalization of Reproductive Decisions Implementation in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.” Comparative Population Studies 36 (2-3):495–530.
   Google Scholar
• Poston, Dudley L., Jr., and Karen S. Glover. 2005. “Too Many Males: Marriage Market Implications of Gender Imbalances in China.” Genus 61:119–140.
   Google Scholar
• Poston, Dudley L., Jr., Chang Chiung-Fang, and Dan Hong. 2006. “Fertility Differences between the Majority and Minority Nationalities in China.” Population Research and Policy Review 25:67–101.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shi, Lihong. 2017. Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Sobotka, Tomáš, and Éva Beaujouan. 2014. “Two Is Best? the Persistence of a Two-Child Family Ideal in Europe.” Population and Development Review 40 (3):391–419. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2014.00691.x.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• United Nations Development Program. 2016. China Human Development Report 2013. Beijing: UNDP.
   Google Scholar
• Vermeer, Eduard B. 2006. “Demographic Dimensions of China’s Development.” Population and Development Review 32 (S1):115–144. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2006.tb00005.x.
   Google Scholar
• Wang, Feng, Yong Cai, and Baochang Gu. 2013. “Population, Policy, and Politics: How Will History Judge China’s One-Child Policy?” Population and Development Review 38(Supplement):115–129. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00555.x.
   Google Scholar
• Wu, Ying. 2012. “Dali Xiluo Pingshan Baizu Chuantong Hunyin yu Jiating de Wenhua Shengtai Chanshi [A Cultural Ecology Interpretation of Traditional Marriage and Family among the Bai in Dali Xiluo Pingshan].” Social Sciences in Yunnan 1:5–9.
   Google Scholar
• Xiao, Mang. 2001. “Shixi Huizu de Qinshu Zhidu [A Study on Kinship of Hui Nationality].” Social Sciences in Yunnan 2:65–69.
   Google Scholar
• Xinhua, News. 2015. China to Allow Two Children for All Couples. October 29. http://en.people.cn/n/2015/1029/c90000-8968821.html
   Google Scholar
• Xu, Min. 2006. “Chuantong Wenhua Beijing Xia Hanizu Funv de Xiandaihua Wenti [Hani Women's Modern Issues under a Traditional Cultural Background].” Journal of Honghe University 4 (1):22–26.
   Google Scholar
• Yan, Yunxiang. 2003. Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. doi: 10.1086/ahr/109.2.493.
   Google Scholar
• Zeng, Yi. 2007. “Options for Fertility Policy Transition in China.” Population and Development Review 33 (2):215–246. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2007.00168.x.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhang, Hong. 2007. “From Resisting to Embracing? The One-Child Rule: Understanding New Fertility Trends in a Central China Village.” The China Quarterly 192:855–875.
   Google Scholar
• Zhao, Ying. 2002. “Cong Hunyin Jiating Kan Bulangzu Funv de Shehui Diwei [On the Social Position of the Bulang Women through a Study of Their Family and Marriage].” Journal of Yunnan University of the Nationalities 19 (4):76–78.
   Google Scholar
• Zheng, Zhenzhen, Yong Cai, Wang Feng, and Gu Baochang. 2009. “Below-Replacement Fertility and Childbearing Intention in Jiangsu Province, China.” Asian Population Studies 5 (3):329–347. doi: 10.1080/17441730903351701.
   Google Scholar
• Zhou, Jiayu. 2010. “Muxi Fuxi Jiaozhi de Hunyin: Huangwa Hunyin Dijie Xingshi Tanxi [Marriages Interwoven with Matrilineality and Patrilineality: Formal Analysis of Establishing a Marriage among the Huang Wa].” Heilongjiang Minzu Congkan [Heilongjiang Ethnic Journal] 119:145–149.
   Google Scholar
• Zhou, Viola. 2016. “China Has World’s Most Skewed Sex Ratio at Birth – Again.” South China Morning Post, October 27.
   Google Scholar