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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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- Population policy
- Real property
- Gender status
- Household
- Lineages
- Conception
- Abortion and infanticide
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Han Chinese
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1989-2004
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1949-2005
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Huang Tu Village, Henan Province, People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Laurel Bossen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-19)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2004252820
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- China--Social life and customs