Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Howden, David
• Zhou, Yang

Titel

Why Did China's Population Grow so Quickly?

Ist Teil von

• The independent review (Oakland, Calif.), 2015-10, Vol.20 (2), p.227-248

Ort / Verlag

Oakland: Independent Institute

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• China's one-child policy has conic to he widely regarded as an effective piece of government legislation that saved the country from a Malthusian fate. The Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976 was the crowning achievement of Mao Zedong, chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1945 to 1976. This social-political movement aimed to remove all capitalistic and traditional elements from Chinese society and to enforce the Maoist orthodoxy of industrialization. The Cultural Revolution itself functioned as a type of backlash against the failure of China's Great Leap Forward of 1958-60. Mao initiated the latter campaign to transform the agrarian society into a modernized industrial one by way of the complete collectivization of the economy. The rapid expansion of China's population from 1949 to the late 1970s stoked the flames of neo-Malthusian demographers. China's one-child policy is among the most famous policies enacted in the wake of the country's Cultural Revolution.