The Lost Daughters of China | Historical Context
China and Population Control
China is a huge country and has always had a large population. For much of its history, millions of Chinese peasants have lived in dire poverty. Floods and famine have frequently ravaged the land, and the death rate has always been high. During the 1930s, for example, in many rural areas the infant mortality rate was three hundred to every one thousand people, and average life expectancy was only twenty-four years.
The communist revolution in 1949 at first improved the fortunes of the country. Economic reform gave peasants greater...
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