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52, July 1946. 3. I. B. Taeuber, 'The Families of Chinese Farmers' in M. ) Family and Kinship in Chinese Society (Stanford University Press, 1970). 4. C. K. Yang, Chinese Communist Society: The Family and the Village (Boston : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959),7 ; M. Freedman, ' Chin ese Domestic Family Models' in Vle Congres intemationale des sciences anthropologiques et ethnologiques, Paris, 1963, vol. 2. Pt 1, 97-100. 5. F. W. Notestein, 'Population' in J . L. Buck, Land Utilization in China (Nanking: University of Nanking, 1937),363-71.

64 . Liu Zheng, 'There must be a Population Plan ', RMRB, 2 June 1980. 65 . For full discussion of arguments in support of the policy, see Gui Shixin , 'Population Control and Economic Policy'. 66 . See 'Family Planning in Tianjin', Tianjin Ribao (Tianjin Daily) 22 July 1979; 'Family Planning in Shanghai', Wenhui Bao (Shanghai) 18 January 1980. 67 . Editorial, Shanxi Ribao, 12 April 1982. 68 . 'Take Urgent Action to Reduce the Birth Rate', Tianjin Ribao 4 August 1979. 69 . Beijing Centre of Communications and Family Planning, Renkou Lilun xuanzhang (Topics in Population Theory) 40 .

Thus committees for planned birth work were set up at every administrative level from the national to the regional, and within urban and local communities, cadres were made responsible for the family planning education. The delivery of contraceptives was closely tied in with the provision of basic health care by local clinics and particularly by the barefoot doctors. Thus records of women's fertility histories, cycles, contraception and future birth plans were all kept on wall-charts in the local clinics and simultaneous developments in family planning technology enabled barefoot doctors to deliver low-dosage pills daily in the fields during agricultural labour.

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