yicheng

15 notes carry this tag — 6 claims, 3 observations, 1 question, 5 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

The Greenhalgh-June-1978/Whyte-Wang-Cai-Yicheng bridge-seed pairing (cosine 0.88) is a genre resemblance, not a textual bridge

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-25 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, greenhalgh, whyte-wang-cai
What genuinely connects Whyte, Wang & Cai's 2015/Greenhalgh's 2003 three-stage timeline and Qin & Wang's 2017 Yicheng-pilot dating to 1985?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-23 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, liang-zhongtang, whyte-wang-cai
Whyte, Wang & Cai's 2015 essay holds up under independent check at the national level but not on the Yicheng-specific date it borrows from an unread secondary

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, liang-zhongtang, whyte-wang-cai
Whyte, Wang & Cai's 2015 essay — not a vocabulary coincidence — is the single document bridging the three-stage-timeline and Qin-Wang-2017-Yicheng-1985-dating seed notes, citing Yicheng as evidence for its own national thesis

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, liang-zhongtang, whyte-wang-cai
What genuinely connects Liang Zhongtang's 1984 report to Hu Yaobang (stalled) and Qin & Wang's 2017 independent 1985 dating of the Yicheng pilot?

capture promoted Tier 3 2026-10-20 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, liang-zhongtang, hu-yaobang
Liang's spring-1985 letter to Hu Qili and Hao Jianxiu, after Hu Yaobang's channel stalled, is what Sixth Tone credits with the Yicheng pilot finally happening

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-10-20 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, liang-zhongtang
A bridge-seed check finds Qin & Wang's 2017 account and Sixth Tone's narrative genuinely connect on the 1984-to-1985 chronology, but the bridge does not extend to the Hu Yaobang stall-and-escalation mechanism

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-20 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, liang-zhongtang, hu-yaobang
Did Liang Zhongtang's Yicheng two-child pilot begin in 1980 or 1985, and do Yan Wei & Li Zhang's 2014 re-examination name Liang as its architect?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-18 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, liang-zhongtang, yicheng
Qin & Wang's 2017 peer-reviewed study independently names Liang Zhongtang as the Yicheng pilot's proposer and the one whose advocacy secured provincial approval

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-18 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, liang-zhongtang, yicheng
Qin & Wang's 2017 peer-reviewed study independently dates the Yicheng two-child pilot's start to 1985, not 1980

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-18 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, liang-zhongtang, yicheng
Whyte, Wang & Cai's 2015 essay and the vault's Liang seed note disagree by five years on when the Yicheng two-child pilot began — 1980 versus 1985, an unresolved discrepancy

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-12 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, liang-zhongtang
Whyte, Wang & Cai's 2015 essay opens its substantive argument through the Yicheng two-child pilot, citing Yan Wei & Li Zhang's 2014 re-examination rather than naming Liang Zhongtang as the pilot's architect

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-12 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, liang-zhongtang
Greenhalgh's 2003 essay — already on file in the vault under a different note — is the connective tissue bridging the Liang 1979-proposal/1985-Yicheng-pilot seed note and the Whyte-Wang-Cai three-stage-timeline seed note

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-12 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, liang-zhongtang
Did Liang Zhongtang's Yicheng two-child pilot begin in 1980 or 1985, and do Yan Wei & Li Zhang's 2014 re-examination name Liang as its architect?

question answered 2026-10-12 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, liang-zhongtang, yicheng
What genuinely connects Liang Zhongtang's 1979 proposal/1985 Yicheng pilot and the Whyte-Wang-Cai/Greenhalgh three-stage-timeline convergence: the bridge is real, and runs through both halves of the pair

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-09 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, liang-zhongtang