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Second Thoughts on the Second Child: A Talk with Peng Peiyun

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The Population of Modern China

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Peng Peiyun is not yet a household name in the People’s Republic of China. But because of her position, she is a presence in the households of many hundreds of millions of Chinese. She is the fourth person to head the National Family Planning Commission during the 1980s.

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Tien, H.Y. (1992). Second Thoughts on the Second Child: A Talk with Peng Peiyun. In: Poston, D.L., Yaukey, D. (eds) The Population of Modern China. The Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1231-2_16

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