One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
by Mei Fong
Description
For more than three decades, China’s one-child policy reshaped families, communities, and the nation’s future in the name of economic progress. Through reporting from across China, this book examines the policy’s far-reaching consequences—from aging parents and an imbalanced gender ratio to the pressures placed on only children, unauthorized families, and the international adoption system. Blending vivid personal stories with incisive analysis, it explores the human cost of state-directed population control and the demographic challenges now confronting China. The result is a nuanced investigation of ambition, family, social change, and the unintended consequences of radical government policy.
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paperback
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published Jan 1, 2016
250 pages
ISBN: 9780544275393
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First Published
2016
Language
eng
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