Glossary
- Cadres
- Those people required by the central government and the Chinese Communist Party to coerce people into compliance of the one-child policy.
- Fertility Rate
- The rate of production in a society within a given time
- Fuedal Society
- This period was marked by very poor conditions, and a low population growth. During this time a great amount of the Chinese population lived as serfs, spending their lives indebted to a lord.
- Mortality Rate
- The rate of deaths in a society within a given time
- New China
- From 1949-present, the People's Republic of China was marked by economic and social change for the Chinese people.
- Replacement Rate
- The number of births as compared to deaths in a society in a given time
- Sati
- The act of a widowed Indian woman throwing herself onto the pyre of her husband.
- Semifuedelistic/Semicolonial period
- Starting in 1840, this time was the beginning of western influence in China.
- "Single-child" certificate
- The certificate give to couples who pledged to only have one child and will recieve benifits for their decision.
- Slave Society
- This time period in Chinese history was marked by a great separation between the rich and the poor. Slaves were seen as pawns and often lost their lives when their masters engaged in battle.
- "unplanned" pregnancy
- A pregnancy that is not allowed by the Chinese goverenment because it does not comply with the one-child policy.
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