Analysing China's Population
Social Change in a New Demographic Era
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Changes in union formation patterns in a context of male marriage-squeeze: an exploratory survey in rural Shaanxi, China
Starting from the postulate that formation of heterosexual unions is necessarily affected by a numerical imbalance between the sexes in the marriage market, this paper uses data from a survey conducted in 2014...
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China’s Demography in a Changing Society: Old Problems and New Challenges
After four decades of strict birth control, the rapid growth of China’s population has been substantially curbed. According to official figures, the total fertility rate dropped below the replacement level in ...
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Being a Woman in China Today: A Demography of Gender
In China as in many other countries, inequalities remain between women and men in areas as varied as access to health care, education, and employment, wages, political representation, representation of assets ...
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Conclusion: What Demographic Perspectives for China and the World?
At one period or another of their history, various populations have experienced disparities in their sex distribution but these did not have a far-reaching impact because they were temporary. However, in China...
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Discrimination Against Girls in Early Childhood
The male surplus in China is highest in the young population, and this has been the case for at least the past half-century. The 1953 census revealed a deficit of girls among children aged under 15, with a sex...
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Overview
China is now among the countries in the world with the highest proportion of men in its population. While this situation is not new, the sex ratio has become even more imbalanced over the past three decades. T...
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The Status of Women in Traditional Chinese Society
Chinese society remains fundamentally rooted in highly gendered social and family roles. From a demographic point of view, discrimination against girls and women is therefore part of a system of norms and valu...
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Discriminatory Practices and Factors in Masculinization
Most research published in the 1990s concurred that under-reporting of births was the main reason for the shortage of girls (Coale and Banister 1994; Hull 1990; Johansson and Nygren 1991; Zeng et al. 1993). We...
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Why Are There More Boys Than Girls?
As explained in the previous chapter, in the absence of differential migration, the proportions of the two sexes in a given population are determined by the ratio of boys to girls at birth and by male and fema...
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A Phenomenon Not Unique to China
The global female deficit was estimated to total 100 million in the 1990s, and by far the largest share of this deficit was in Asia (Sen 1990; Klasen and Wink 2002), currently the only continent with a majorit...
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Women, Feminism and Femininity
Women’s emancipation became a political concern in the mid-nineteenth century. Early Chinese-style feminism began to emerge under the Tai** and their leader Hong **uquan who founded a kingdom in southern Chi...
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Familial and Socioeconomic Reasons Behind Discrimination
As seen above, the masculinization of the child population is mainly due to discriminatory practices against girls, such as sex-selective abortions (the main cause of the sex imbalance at birth), and the negle...
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A Geography of Discrimination
It is highly relevant in the case of China to distinguish between urban and rural areas in the analysis of pre- and post-natal discrimination against girls, because of the profound socioeconomic disparities th...
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Life-Long Inequality
The masculinization of China’s population is largely a “bottom-up” process in the sense that first it affects births (through increasing use of prenatal sex selection) and then children (as a consequence of ex...
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Persistent Social and Economic Disparities
From a demographic point of view, discrimination against girls and women is part of a family and social system that confers high value on men and keeps girls and women in an inferior position. The Chinese gove...
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Histoire sociale
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Transitional stages and identity boundaries: the case of ethnic minorities in China
At the advent of the Republic in China in 1911, the minority issue took on its real dimension. Its founder Sun Yat Sen, aware of the fragility of the new Nation-State, and turning a deaf ear to the statistical...
