Just One Child (2008)'s own Table 1 names Liang Zhongtang as one of the roughly two dozen key actors in the one-child policy's origins

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Chapter 1 of [[entity-just-one-child-greenhalgh-2008|Just One Child]] ("Introduction: An Anthropology of Science Making and Policymaking") states that "the number of leaders and scientists centrally involved was remarkably small — perhaps two dozen in all," and introduces that roster in Table 1, "Key Actors in the Making of the One-Child Policy" (p. 21). In the "Early Deng era (1977–1980)" row of the table's Population Specialists column, one institutional entry reads "Shanxi Party School: Liang Zhongtang" (the OCR extraction interleaves this with the adjacent Political Leaders column's "Hu Yaobang" / "Hu Qili" entries, but the table's own layout pairs the institution with Liang's name as a single Population Specialist entry).

This is a direct, Tier 1 read of the book's own text — the first time any vault session has obtained and read Just One Child directly, rather than inferring its contents from citations to or from it (see observation-whyte-wang-cai-2015-and-greenhalgh-2003-book-in-progress-converge-on-just-one-child). It answers, for the naming component specifically, the question routed on exactly this point: the book does carry Liang's name forward from the 2003 article and the 2005 article, rather than dropping it. What the naming in a roster table does not establish is whether the book's body prose repeats the "openly criticized" / "most outspoken" characterization carried in those two articles — the chapters most likely to carry that prose (5–8, covering the December 1979 Chengdu symposium) were not available on the author's site and remain unread by any vault session.