Paper Summary:

This paper describes the social and economic conditions that gave rise to China's one child policy, a policy directed only at the Han Chinese and not minorities within the country, and then takes a look at the advantages and disadvantages of this policy, as well as its consequences. The paper concludes with recommendations for addressing the population explosion in China.

Introduction
Advantages
Disadvantages
Ethnographic/Social Considerations
Social Consequences
Benefits vs. Problems
Government and Han Chinese
Conclusions/Recommendations

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"The population of China has been exploding in the last several decades, with reports of more than 549 million people in the early 20th century alone (Smith, 1991). The population reached and exceeded 1 billion in the 1980s, more than one-fifth of the world's total population (Smith, 1991:116). China's tremendous population growth has resulted in many problems. One major concern is that there is not enough land to support the number of people living in the country. The population growth has continued despite a lack of increases in the amount of cultivatable land thus there is only half as much land per capita for example in 1979 as there was in 1949, and the number has continued to decline through the nineties (Smith, 1991)."

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