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Forty million missing girls: land, population controls and sex imbalance in rural China
Asia-Pacific journal: Japan focus • 3 (10) • Published In 2005 • Pages: 1-19
By: Bossen, Laurel.
Abstract
This study investigates China's imbalanced sex ratio (in favor of boys) in the post-reform era and attributes it mostly to agnatic control of land and patrilocal marriage. Although lineages were weakened by the land reform and collectivization, in the subsequent reform period, village leaders reverted to allocating land based on the custom of patrilineal birthright. Male heirs who lived with their cousins and extended families enjoyed access to more land, labor, and income.
- Subjects
- Composition of population
- Population policy
- Real property
- Gender status
- Household
- Lineages
- Conception
- Abortion and infanticide
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- 1989-2004
- Coverage Date
- 1949-2005
- Coverage Place
- Huang Tu Village, Henan Province, People's Republic of China
- Notes
- Laurel Bossen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-19)
- LCCN
- 2004252820
- LCSH
- China--Social life and customs