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Anxious Communist Party Won’t Get Out of the Bedroom By Andrew Browne “…In her coming book “One Child, The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment,” the journalist Mei Fong describes its gargantuan proportions: Half a million employees of the National Population and Family Planning Commission involved in everything from recording women’s menstrual cycles to making propaganda films and conducting pharmacological …

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How Did the One-Child Policy Change China?: An Interview with Mei Fong BY BARBARA DEMICK Mei Fong is the youngest of five daughters, conceived in hopes of a son who never materialized. “Be glad we’re not in the old country,’’ her relatives, who had immigrated from southern China to Malaysia, would tell her. “You’d never have been born.” Fong grew …

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By Mei Fong Oct. 31, 2015 The Guardian Two years ago, I found myself massaging a complete stranger. He, in turn, rubbed my shoulders, amid the organisers’s cries to “give it a good pounding!”. He and I had been put in a group, made to chant “love slogans” and introduce ourselves in quick succession to a circle of people in …

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Hi all! Given all the interest in the implications of the news this week, digital copies of “One Child” will be available three months early, on November 3. Hardcover copies will still hit stores in February, but if you want an early look buy it here. Spread the word! You can also check out all of Mei’s appearances in the …

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