This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the population and social developments in Asian societies, with a special focus on East and Southeast Asia.  It will look at the basic demographic characteristics of Asian population; the effects of mortality, fertility and migration on changing the size, growth and composition of population; and the special features of demographic transition in Asia.  It will also look at the inter-relationship between population development and social development, such as the impacts of population aging on labor force, quality of life and health care; the impacts of sex imbalance on marriage and gender equality; the impacts of rural to urban migration on family, employment and social equality.  Finally, this course will look at the population and social developments in Asia from various theoretical perspectives, and the discussions and debates related to the population policies in affecting the current and future population and social developments in Asian societies.