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Just as a giant redwood’s rings register its history, so a nation’s age-sex structure registers the consequences of her demographic swings. This chapter undertakes not only to describe the dramatically changing age-sex structure of modern China, but also to trace these changes back to shifts in her population processes, particularly fertility and infant mortality.
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Yaukey, D. (1992). The Age-Sex Structure of Modern China: A Graphic Description and Explanation. In: Poston, D.L., Yaukey, D. (eds) The Population of Modern China. The Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1231-2_18
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