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Author:

Fong, Mei, author.

Title:

One child : the story of China's most radical experiment / Mei Fong.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xvi, 250 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

China--Population policy.
Family planning--Government policy--China.
Family size--Government policy--China.
Families--China.
China--Social conditions--2000-
China--Social policy--21st century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

After the quake -- And the clock struck 8/8/08 -- Cassandra and the rocketmen -- The population police -- Little emperors, grown up -- Welcome to the dollhouse -- Better to struggle to live on, than die a good death -- The red thread is broken -- Babies beyond borders.

Summary:

"When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy's repercussions on every sector of Chinese society. In One Child, she explores its true human impact, traveling across China to meet the people who live with its consequences. Their stories reveal a dystopian reality: unauthorized second children ignored by the state, only-children supporting aging parents and grandparents on their own, villages teeming with ineligible bachelors, and an ungoverned adoption market stretching across the globe. Fong tackles questions that have major implications for China's future: whether its 'Little Emperor' cohort will make for an entitled or risk-averse generation; how China will manage to support itself when one in every four people is over sixty-five years old; and above all, how much the one-child policy may end up hindering China's growth. Weaving in Fong's reflections on striving to become a mother herself, One Child offers a nuanced and candid report from the extremes of family planning." -- Amazon.com

ISBN:

054427539X
9780544275393

OCLC:

(OCoLC)898052629

LCCN:

2015037254

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