Party Membership, Ultrasound, and One-Child Policy: Sex Imbalance in Rural China

• In Event: Gender Politics in East Asia

Brief Overview

This study examines how the Chinese Communist Party's cadre evaluation system motivated local officials to enforce the one-child policy and promote the use of sex identification techniques, which exacerbated the issue of sex imbalance.

Author

• Yi-Nung Tsai, Academia Sinica