China One Child Policy
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1. Family Planning Law and China's Birth Control Situation - In an interview, State Family Planning Commission official
explains the law and the population and family planning situation in the country. (October 18, 2002)
2. Family Planning in China
3. Illegal births and legal abortions – the case of China
4. ^ Information Office of the State Council Of the People's Republic of China (August 1995). "Family Planning in China".
Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Lithuania.
http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/celt/eng/zt/zfbps/t125241.htm. Retrieved 27 October 2008. Section III paragraph 2.
5. BBC: China steps up "one-child policy".
6. "Most people free to have more child". 2007-07-11. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/200707/11/content_5432238.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
7. "400 million births prevented by one-child policy". People's daily online. October 2011.
http://english.people.com.cn/90882/7629166.html. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
8. Damien Mcelroy (2001-04-08). "Chinese region 'must conduct 20,000 abortions'". London: Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1336466/Chinese-region-must-conduct-20000abortions.html.
9. "The Chinese Celebrate Their Roaring Economy, As They Struggle With Its Costs". 2008-07-22.
http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=261. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
10. Arthur E. Dewey, Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration Testimony before the House
International Relations Committee Washington, DC December 14, 2004
http://statelists.state.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0412c&L=dossdo&P=401
11. "China Sticking With One-Child Policy." The New York Times, 11 March 2008. Retrieved 7 November 2008.
12. "China's one-child policy little enforced – and set to end". MarketWatch. March 29, 2010. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
13. China's one-child policy may be coming to an end, SCMP, 22 January 2013
14. China reportedly considering ‘two-child’ policy. MarketWatch. March 8, 2011. Retrieved March 9, 2011.
15. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550444/
16. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010census/2010-08/20/content_11182379.htm
17. "The One Child Family Policy". BMJ.
18. CIA World Factbook. CIA Factbook.
19. Ansley J. Coale “Population Trends, Population Policy, and Population Studies in China.” Population and
Development Review, Vol. 7, No. 1. Mar 1981. Web. 25 Mar 2011. Coale shows birth and death data up to 1979 in
quite some detail, as well as cultural background to the famine in 1959-61.
20. See Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific report "Status of Population and Family Planning
Program in China by Province".
21. Hu Huiting (18 October 2002). "Family Planning Law and China's Birth Control Situation". China Daily.
http://www.china.org.cn/english/2002/Oct/46138.htm. Retrieved 2 March 2009.
22. PBS (14 February 1984). "Family Planning Law and China's Birth Control Situation". NOVA.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/listseason/11.html. Retrieved 13 October 2009. {VIDEO}
23. Callick, Rowan (24 January 2007). "China relaxes its one-child policy". The Australian.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/china-relaxes-its-one-child-policy/story-e6frg6so-1111112880730.
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24. Vanessa L. Fong; Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China's One-Child Policy; Stanford University Press, Feb 15, 2006;
Page 179
25. "Regulations on Family Planning of Henan Province". Henan Daily. 5 April 2000.
http://www.unescap.org/esid/psis/population/database/poplaws/law_china/ch_record060.htm. Retrieved 29
October 2008."国务院专家：建议全面放开二胎". yaolan.com. 6 July 2012.
http://www.afinance.cn/new/gncj/201207/465498.html. Retrieved 17 July 2012. Article 13.
26. Scheuer, James (4 January 1987). "America, the U.N. and China's Family Planning (Opinion)". The New York Times.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFD81F3BF937A15752C0A961948260. Retrieved 27 October
2008.
27. One-Child Policy Lifted for Quake Victims’ Parents, by Andrew Jacobs. New York Times, 27 May 2008. Retrieved May
28, 2008.
28. Baby offer for earthquake parents BBC. Retrieved on 31 October 2008.
29. China Amends Child Policy for Some Quake Victims
30. "First systematic study of China’s one-child policy reveals complexity, effectiveness of fertility regulation".
Today@UCI (University of California Irvine). April 18, 2007. http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1597.
Retrieved 2007-04-19.
31. Therese Hasketh, Li Lu, and Zhu Wei Xing. 2005. "The effects of China's One-Child Family Policy after 25 Years", New
England Journal of Medicine, 353, No. 11 (September 15): 1171–1176.
32. Family Planning Law and China's Birth Control Situation
33. John Taylor (2005-02-08). "China - One Child Policy". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2005/s1432717.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
34. Edward Wong (July 22, 2012). "Reports of Forced Abortions Fuel Push to End Chinese Law". The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/world/asia/pressure-to-repeal-chinas-one-child-law-is-growing.html.
Retrieved July 23, 2012.
35. "Genetic testing, governance, and the family in the People's Republic of China".
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VBF-502GHF4-2/2/13bade432aa67379e5b1494c668ad5bc.
36. Damien McElroy (2002-02-03). "China is furious as Bush halts UN 'abortion' funds". London: Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1383627/China-is-furious-as-Bush-halts-UNabortion-funds.html.
37. Sichan Siv (2003-01-21). "United Nations Fund for Population Activities in China". U.S. Department of State. Archived
from the original on 19 February 2003.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030219115734/http://www.state.gov/p/io/rls/rm/2003/16790.htm.
38. "Rethinking China's one-child policy". CBC. October 28, 2009. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
39. "Consultative Conference: "The government must end the one-child rule"". AsiaNews.it. 2007-03-16.
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=8757&size=A.
40. "Advisors say it's time to change one-child policy". Shanghai Daily. 2007-03-15.
http://english.sina.com/china/1/2007/0315/106515.html.
41. "Over 1,900 officials breach birth policy in C. China". Xinhua. 8 July 2007. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/200707/08/content_912620.htm. Retrieved 11 November 2008. "But heavy fines and exposures seemed to hardly stop
the celebrities and rich people, as there are still many people, who can afford the heavy penalties, insist on having
multiple kids, the Hunan commission spokesman said. Three officials... who were all found to have kept extramarital
mistresses, were all convicted for charges such as embezzlement and taking bribes, but they were not punished for
having more than one child."
42. 'Many Chinese giving birth in CNMI trying to get around one child policy'. See:
http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=116544
43. "Where Boys Were Kings, a Shift Toward Baby Girls,"New York Times, December 24, 2007.
44. "The worldwide war on baby girls". The Economist. March 8, 2010. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
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45. Zeng Yi et al. 1993. "Causes and Implications of the Recent Increase in the Reported Sex Ratio at Birth in China",
Population and Development Review 19 (June): 283–302.
46. Thurston, Anne. "In a Chinese Orphanage". http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&sid=f1427281-60874441-8edadc2ec99b577c%40sessionmgr112&hid=16&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=f5h&AN=9604171086.
Retrieved January 24, 2013. (use EBSCOHost login and password to open)
47. Weiguo Zhang. 2006. "Child Adoption in Contemporary Rural China", Journal of Family Issues 27 (March): 301–340.
48. U.S. State Department report, "Immigrant Visas Issued to Orphans Coming to the U.S.", at
http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/stats/stats_451.html.
49. Demick, Barbara (20 Sept. 2009). "Chinese Babies Stolen by Officials for Foreign Adoptions". Los Angeles Times.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-adopt20-2009sep20,0,491086.story.
50. See Amnesty International's report on violence against women in China.
51. "Case Study: Female Infanticide" Gendercide Watch, 2000
52. "Infanticide Statistics: Infanticide in China" AllGirlsAllowed.org, 2010
53. Associated Press (14 February 2006). "China: Drug bid to beat child ban". China Daily.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-02/14/content_520025.htm. Retrieved 11 November 2008.
GALE Opposing Viewpoints in Context (requires LAPL library card)
1. Townsend, Liz. "Abortion of Girls on the Rise in Communist China." National Right to Life News July 2002: 26. 28 Feb.
2013.
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2. Last, Jonathan V. "America's One-Child Policy; What China imposed on its population, we're adopting voluntarily."
The Weekly Standard 27 Sept. 2010. 28 Feb. 2013.
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3. Winter, Kevin. "China's baby bust." The American Conservative 11.6 (2012): 4. 28 Feb. 2013.
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4. McManus, John F. "China's one-child-per-family policy targets the famous and the wealthy." The New American 2
Apr. 2007: 11. 28 Feb. 2013.
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5. Information Office of The State Council of The People's Republic of China. "China's One-Child Policy Does Not Violate
Human Rights." China. Ed. David M. Haugen. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from
"Family Planning in China." www.china.org.cn/English/index.html. 1995. 28 Feb. 2013.
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6. Wu, Harry. "China's One-Child Policy Violates Human Rights." China. Ed. David M. Haugen. Detroit: Greenhaven
Press, 2006. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Forced Abortion and Sterilization: The View from the Inside."
www.laogai.org. 1998. 28 Feb. 2013.
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7. O'Neill, Brendan. "China's parents have begun to rebel: Brendan O'Neill says that the state's cruel and antiquated
one-child policy is being propped up by British environmentalists with an agenda--but the Chinese are striking back."
Spectator 22 May 2010: 25. 28 Feb. 2013.
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"China's slaughter of innocents." The Wilson Quarterly 20.3 (1996): 135+. 28 Feb. 2013.
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"China loosens one-child policy due to earthquake toll." The New American 23 June 2008: 6. 28 Feb. 2013.
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"Good news out of China: They are expelling people from the Communist party for violating the one-child policy."
National Review 28 Jan. 2008: 10. 28 Feb. 2013.
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Thurston, Anne F. "In a Chinese orphanage." The Atlantic Apr. 1996: 28+. 28 Feb. 2013.
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Last, Jonathan V. "The Lost Girls; China's One-Child policy is an epic disaster. Why does it have so many
cheerleaders?" The Weekly Standard 26 Sept. 2011. 28 Feb. 2013.
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"Peasants fight China's abominable one-child policy." The New American 11 June 2007: 7. 28 Feb. 2013.
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Cannon, Carl M. "Too spoiled, too male." National Journal 37.32 (2005): 2514-2517. 28 Feb. 2013.
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"The UN Population Fund Helps China Persecute Women and Kill Children." United Nations. Ed. Susan C. Hunnicutt.
Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2007. At Issue. Rpt. from "The United Nations Population Fund Helps China Persecute
Women and Kill Children." National Right to Life News 31 (Aug. 2004). 28 Feb. 2013.
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4. Xueli, Wang, and Zhou Jiyue. "A Review Of Studies On Only-Child And A Proposed Research Direction For Future
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5. Marleen Temmerman, et al. "Impact Of Post-Abortion Family Planning Services On Contraceptive Use And Abortion
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