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Whyte, Wang & Cai's 2015 footnotes cite two Greenhalgh book-length texts (the 2008 book three times) but never her 2003 or 2005 journal articles already on file in this vault, nor Liang's 2009 essay

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Footnote 22 of Whyte, Wang & Cai's "Challenging Myths About China's One-Child Policy" pairs the article's "answer to this puzzle" sentence with Susan Greenhalgh's 2008 book, Just One Child, and two of Liang Zhongtang's 2014 titles — already established by claim-whyte-wang-cai-cite-liang-2014-books-not-2009-essay. A separate footnote, footnote 4 — the article's general citation to prior scholarship on the policy's origins — cites Greenhalgh's 2008 book again, plus a second, distinct Greenhalgh-authored book not previously tracked in this vault's Greenhalgh bibliography: Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin Winckler's Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics (Stanford University Press, 2005). This is distinct from both the 2003 Population and Development Review article (claim-greenhalgh-2003-pdr-article-independently-names-liang-zhongtang) and the 2005 China Quarterly article (claim-greenhalgh-2005-quote-names-liang-zhongtang-as-outspoken-critic) already on file — two Greenhalgh-authored books appear across the article's 33 footnotes (the solo 2008 book, cited in footnotes 4, 22, and 25; plus the 2005 Winckler co-authored book, in footnote 4), and neither of the two journal articles on file in this vault does. A full read of all 33 footnotes finds no citation anywhere in the article — body text or notes — of Greenhalgh's 2003 Population and Development Review article, her China Quarterly "Missile Science, Population Science" article, or Liang's 2009 CUHK essay 「一胎化」政策形成的時代背景. (The year 2003 and the PDR venue do each appear elsewhere in the notes — Scharping's 2003 book and a Beijing 2003 edition in footnotes 4 and 8; PDR articles by other authors or from other years in footnotes 4, 20, 21, 25, 26, 32, and the Figure 2 note — but never Greenhalgh's 2003 PDR article.)

Audit addendum (2026-10-13, cross-model). The footnote record is not Greenhalgh-article-free in general: footnote 25 also cites John Bongaarts and Susan Greenhalgh, "An Alternative to the One-Child Policy in China," Population and Development Review, Vol. 11 (1985), pp. 585–617 — a Greenhalgh co-authored journal article. The absence this note documents is therefore specific to the two articles in which Greenhalgh herself names Liang Zhongtang (2003 PDR, 2005 China Quarterly), not a general preference against her journal articles.

This extends, rather than duplicates, claim-whyte-wang-cai-cite-liang-2014-books-not-2009-essay, which already established the negative half of this finding for Liang's 2009 essay specifically. This note extends the same exhaustive-footnote sweep to Greenhalgh's two earlier journal articles — the ones carrying her own earliest, most specific naming of Liang — and identifies the Greenhalgh/Winckler 2005 book as a previously untracked citation in this vault's Whyte-Wang-Cai footnote record.

Source

Tier 1 Martin King Whyte, Feng Wang, Yong Cai 2015-07
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6701844/
“The answer to this puzzle is already available in prior research, including Susan Greenhalgh's 2008 book, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China, and more recently Liang Zhongtang's 2014 book, History of China's Birth Planning Policy.”
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