GEOG 468 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Work Unit, Mao Zedong, Canada 2016 Census
10 Mar 2016
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Susan greenhalgh article alludes to how population began to be an object of analysis: before that, people didn"t think of population as an issue. Post cultural revolution: science & rationality in place of political ideology. Early 1990s: how to modernize china: learn science & technology from west, china society: a pile of sand , western imperialism caused chinese degeneracy ; how to improve. More children means more labour, faster economic growth. After mao, excessive population was blamed for slowed economic growth. Science became the frame for thinking about population & formulating one child policy. Couples have fewer children of higher quality . High quality: population for wealth and power. Household registration: urban: linked with work unit, provided housing, grain and education, rural: designated into communes, worked to earn grain, people can"t move around. Prevent rural people from moving to cities. Hundreds of millions the floating population.
