Just one child: science and policy in Deng's China

Introduction : an anthropology of science making and policymaking

History : the "ideology" before the "science"

A Chinese Marxian statistics of population

A Sinified cybernetics of population

A Chinese Marxian humanism of population

The scientific revolution in Chengdu

Ally recruitment in Beijing

Scientific policymaking in Zhongnanhai

Conclusion : why an epistemic approach matters.