KU Today Article: PROFESSOR’S DEBUT BOOK TRACKS DOWN CHINA'S 'MISSING GIRLS'LAWRENCE — When University of Kansas professor John James Kennedy began working in rural China, he would get introduced to villagers with...
NPR's All Things Considered Podcast: "Researchers Uncover Misreporting In Chinese Birth StaNPR's Audie Cornish talks with John James Kennedy, associate professor of political science at the University of Kansas, whose work in...
CNN Article: Study finds millions of China's 'missing girls' actually exist"It sounds like the plot of a mystery novel. A controversial one-child policy that resulted in as many as 60 million "missing girls" in...
Article: Finance and rural governance: centralization and local challengesThe ability of local governments to raise revenues has been dramatically altered over the last several decades in rural China, and this...
New Book: "Local Leaders, Families, and the 'Missing Girls' in Rural China", OxforThis book will be released in spring of 2019. Available for pre-order from Oxford University Press here. Description: In 1979, the...