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  • Sent-down Youth and Rural Economic Development in Maoist China

  • Emily Honig, Xiaojian Zhao
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 222 / June 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 March 2015, pp. 499-521
    Print publication:
    June 2015

  • This article explores the relationship between the sent-down youth movement and economic development in rural China during the Cultural Revolution. It examines ways in which sent-down youth themselves initiated improvements in rural life, and more importantly, how local officials used both their presence to acquire equipment and technical training and their skills and education to promote rural industry. The sent-down youth offices established in the cities and the countryside inadvertently provided connections between remote rural counties and large urban centres that enabled the transfer of a significant quantity of material goods, ranging from electrical wires and broadcast cables to tractors and factory machinery. Ultimately, we show how individual sent-down youths, their families, and both urban and rural officials – none of whom had a role in determining government policies – identified and made use of resources that those policies unintentionally produced.

  • China's Skewed Sex Ratio and the One-Child Policy

  • Charis Loh, Elizabeth J. Remick
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 222 / June 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 March 2015, pp. 295-319
    Print publication:
    June 2015

  • The media and generalist scholarly work have created a conventional wisdom that China's one-child policy is the driver of the country's skewed sex ratio and so should be relaxed in order to ameliorate the imbalance. However, we show through historical, domestic and international comparisons that son preference, which we treat as an observable and measurable variable made up of labour, ritual, inheritance and old-age security practices and policies, is crucial to explaining the imbalanced sex ratio at birth. China's sex ratio cannot fully normalize without addressing son preference.

A Concise History of Japan
  • Brett L. Walker
  • Published online:
    05 March 2015
    Print publication:
    26 February 2015
  • To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the uses of science and medicine. The book begins by tracing the country's early history through archaeological remains, before proceeding to explore life in the imperial court, the rise of the samurai, civil conflict, encounters with Europe, and the advent of modernity and empire. Integrating the pageantry of a unique nation's history with today's environmental concerns, Walker's vibrant and accessible new narrative then follows Japan's ascension from the ashes of World War II into the thriving nation of today. It is a history for our times, posing important questions regarding how we should situate a nation's history in an age of environmental and climatological uncertainties.

  • CQY volume 221 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 221 / March 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    18 March 2015, pp. f1-f5
    Print publication:
    March 2015
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