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Further Reading | Week 9

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"Xinhua Cites U.S. Academics on Family Planning in Tibet", World Tibet Network News, Thursday, September 16, 1993 (Available online) http://www.tibet.ca/wtnarchive/1993/9/16-2_1.html

China Web coverage of proposed amendments to 1980 Marriage law (2000)
http://www.china.org.cn/english/3123.htm

PRC Law on Maternal and Infant Healthcare (passed Oct. 1994)
http://www.unescap.org/pop/database/law_china/ch_record006.htm

PRC White paper on Population in China
http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/21st/index.htm

Wolf, Margery. Revolution Postponed. Ch. 6, "Cooked Rice: Marriage in New China," and Ch. 7, "The Setting of Chinese Women's Lives: Family Organization" (60 pp)

Dikotter, Frank. Sex, Culture and Modernity in China: Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period, Honolulu: Univ. of HI press, 1995. (chapters on birth, birth planning, eugenics, marriage sexuality).

Evans, Harriet. Women and Sexuality in China.New York: Continuum, 1997.

Watson, Ruby and Ebrey, Patricia, eds., Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Greenhalgh, Susan. "The Peasantization of the One-Child Policy in Shaanxi," Deborah Davis and Stevan Harrell, Eds., Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Gillette, Marris. "What's in a Dress? Brides in the Hui Quarter of Xi'an," in Davis, (Ed.), The Consumer Revolution in Urban China. Berkeley: Univ. of Ca Press, 2000.

Scharping, Thomas. Birth Control in China 1949-2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

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