On The Birth Control Thoughts Of Modern China

Modern birth control idea, which came from the West, were introduced to China in the 1920s. This doctrine advocated using scientific methods to control population growth in order to promote socio-economic and demographic changes to develop coordinately, to seek the liberation of the majority of women at physiological and social levels. At that time, many intellectuals saw it as an ideological weapon to transform China, an effective way to solve China's socio-economic, demographic and women's issues, so they started trying to put it into practice in all the places where conditions were permitted. As a result, the theory of birth control, which originally came from the West, were gradually integrated with China's traditional culture, and gradually completed its transformation of localization, and to the times of 1930s, a China-based birth control ideology was largely formed. This system conformed to the needs of China's modernization process, challenged the sexual and reproductive taboos in traditional China, and promoted the women's liberation movement and the progress of social civilization. All of these in no doubt had a great impact on China's future generations. The emergence of a new theory and a storm of population and reproductive sanctions at both sides of the strait in 1950s, to some extent, were a renewal and development of China's local birth control. This essay focused on the spread of the birth control idea in modern China and its activeness to China's traditional resources; and discussed the relevance interactive ness between the birth control idea and China's social development, explained the inherent flaws of the idea ,which came originally from the West, when it gradually completed its transformation of localization derivatives Or displays.