One Child
The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
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Narrated by:
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Janet Song
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By:
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Mei Fong
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When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birthrates 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 65 years old; and, above all, how much the one-child policy may end up hindering China's growth.
©2016 Mei Fong (P)2016 TantorCritic Reviews
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- Vivien
- 08-03-2016
One Child by Mei Fong
This is an excellent explanation of this extraordinary experiment in population control. Mei Fong is able to develop scenarios from so many points of view that show how many and varied the negative ramifications of this policy have been. Many of these examples had never occurred to me before. It is a very thought provoking book.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-10-2017
interesting
very interesting .an eye opener. I listened to it a few times. the author did so much research.
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