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China's One-Child Policy - Facing the fear of overpopulation by austerely enforcing compliance.
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China's One-Child Policy: Facing the fear of overpopulation by austerely enforcing compliance By Sylvia Simson 992-11-4219 Recitation TA: Claudio Benzecry World Cultures: China Thursday, October 31, 2002 Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic of China, is universally renowned for his charismatic guidance and revolutionary contributions to the country he lead during the mid-twentieth century. However, Chairman Mao's death in 1976, followed by Deng Xiaoping's takeover as leader of China in 1977, caused a major reconstruction of his communist ideologies and methods of governance. 1 When he administered the direction of the country, Mao's vision included the notion that a large population was a sign of strength and prosperity. It was only after he passed away that the government realized that the rapidly augmenting population was to pose numerous problems in China's near future. In 1979, the newly revitalized Chinese government "launched a serious birth-control campaign"2 that has come to be known...
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