Transition and Challenge

Dr. Zhongwei Zhao is a demographer. He is a Senior Fellow at the Demography and Sociology Program, the Australian National University, and a Bye-Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. Prior to taking up the present appointment, he worked at University of Cambridge, the Australian National University, University of New South Wales, the East-West Centre of Hawaii and Peking University. He received a PhD from University of Cambridge.Dr. Fei Guo is a Senior Lecturer in demography at the Macquarie University, Australia. She received her postgraduate education, with a Ph.D. in Sociology, from the University of Hawaii and the East-West Center, and was an Andrew Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. Before joining Macquarie, she was a researcher at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Family planning during the economic reform era ; 3. The politics of numbers: Fertility statistics in recent decades ; 4. Below replacement fertility in Mainland China ; 5. Fertility transition in Hong Kong and Taiwan ; 6. Induced abortion and its demographic consequences ; 7. Child sex ratios and their regional variation ; 8. Recent changes in marriage patterns ; 9. Poverty, progress, and rising life expectancy ; 10. Changing mortality patterns and causes of death ; 11. Population aging: Challenges, opportunities, and institutions ; 12. Internal migration: Policy changes, recent trends, and new challenges ; 13. The impact of temporary migration on migrant communities ; 14. The changing profile of labor migration ; 15. Minorities: Cultural integration, family planning, and population changes ; 16. China's demography in perspective