China's Longest CampaignIn the late 1970s, just as China was embarking on a sweeping program of post Mao reforms, it also launched a one child campaign. This campaign, which cut against the grain of rural reforms and childbearing preferences, was the culmination of a decade long effort to subject reproduction to state planning. Tyrene White here analyzes this great social engineering experiment, drawing on more than twenty years of research, including fieldwork and