Brown University Working Group on China: Susan Short

Susan Short's research on China focuses on the one-child policy, fertility and reproductive health, family and gender. She is a social demographer interested in how China 's rapid demographic, economic, and social changes articulate with family and household processes to shape individual welfare. Related to these interests, she conducted fieldwork in two counties in Hubei Province in the mid 1990's on children under the one-child policy. Since coming to Brown in 1997, Short has written papers with colleagues here, including China group member White, former Brown Fulbright Fellow and Nankai University Professor, Tan Lin, and former Brown graduate students, Rongjun Sun and Juhua Yang.

Publications and reports on China:

Susan E. Short, Zeng Yi, and Michael J. White. China 's One-Child Policy and Fertility: Local, National, and International Representations. In Managing Birth and Death: Global Perspectives. Anthony Carter (ed.). Oxford : Berghahn Press. Forthcoming.

Susan E. Short and Fengyu Zhang. 2004. “Use of Maternal Health Services in Rural China .” Population Studies 58(1):3-19.

Susan E. Short and Rongjun Sun. 2004. “Grandmothers, Formal Care, and Educational Advantage in China .” Research in Sociology of Education. 14:7-31.

Lin Tan and Susan E. Short. 2004. “Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women's Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City ” pp. 151-174 in Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka (eds.). On the Move: Women in Rural to Urban Migration in Contemporary China. New York , New York : Columbia University Press.

Chinese version: Tan Lin, Susan E. Short, and Liu Hui. 2003. “Shuang chong wai lai zhe de sheng huo, nv xing hun yin yi min de sheng huo jing li fen xi” (The life of double outsiders, an analysis of the experience of women marriage migrants). She hui xue Yan jiu ( Sociology Research ) 104(2):75-83.

Susan E. Short, Feinian Chen, Barbara Entwisle , and Zhai Fengying. 2002. “Maternal Work and Time Spent in Child Care in China : A Multimethod Approach.” Population and Development Review 28(1): 31-57.

Susan E. Short, Zhai Fengying, Xu Siyuan, and Yang Mingliang. 2001. “ China 's One Child Policy and the Care of Children: An analysis of qualitative and quantitative data” Social Forces 79(3):913-943.

Feinian Chen, Susan E. Short, and Barbara Entwisle . 2000. “The Impact of Grandparental Proximity on Maternal Child Care in China .” Population Research and Policy Review 19(6):571-590.

Susan E. Short, Ma Linmao, and Yu Wentao. 2000. “Birth Planning and Sterilization in China .” Population Studies, 54(3):279-291.

Barbara Entwisle , Susan E. Short, Zhai Fengying, and Ma Linmao. 2000. "Household Economies in Transitional Times." Pp. 261-293 in Barbara Entwisle and Gail E. Henderson (eds.), Re-Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China . Berkeley : University of California Press.

Susan E. Short and Zhai Fengying. 1998. “Looking Locally at China 's One-Child Policy” Studies in Family Planning, 29(4):373-387.

Susan E. Short and Zhai Fengying. 1996. “Household Production and Household Structure in the Context of China 's Economic Reforms” Social Forces, 75(2):691-717.

Barbara Entwisle , Gail E. Henderson, Susan E. Short, Jill Bouma, and Zhai Fengying. 1995. “Gender and Family Businesses in Rural China ” American Sociological Review 60(1):36-57.

Reprinted in:

2002. Market Transition and Social Stratification: American Sociologists' Analyses of China, edited by Yanjie Bian. Beijing : Joint Publishing House. (In Chinese).

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin A. Winckler. Forthcoming . Governing China 's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics . Stanford CA : Stanford University Press. Population Studies.

Review of Vanessa L. Fong. 2005. Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China 's One-Child Policy. Stanford , CA : Stanford University Press. American Journal of Sociology.

Review of Martin King Whyte (ed.). 2004. China 's Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Population Studies 58(1):135-136.

Review of Thomas Scharping. 2003. Birth Control in China , 1949-2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development . London: RoutledgeCurzon. Studies in Family Planning 34(3):221.