“One Child” was the recipient of a number of accolades and awards since its release. It was named one of 2016’s top 10 non-fiction books by Zocalo and listed as one of the Best Human Rights Books of 2016 by Hong Kong Free Press / Kong Tsung-gan. It has been listed as recommended reading by Council of Foreign Relations, TED, …
Continue Reading...After self-publishing a digital Chinese edition last year, the Chinese-language print edition is now available. Published in Taiwan, this posts the Read more about the story in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post: Little emperors to little slaves: how one-child policy will play out in China, according to author Mei Fong – Pulitzer Prize winner ponders the burden for only children …
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“What if I wasn’t given away?” It’s the question that has crossed the mind of almost every adopted child. Very few get satisfactory answers, but from “Mommy Dearest” to “Star Wars,” the foundling’s search has long created powerful narratives. Now, a new phase in this subgenre is beginning, as adoptees resulting from China’s one-child policy reach maturity and begin …
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China is now facing an unprecedented female shortage, thanks to its 30-plus-year-old “one-child” policy and a cultural preference for sons, a volatile combination that has led to sex-selective abortions and cases of female infanticide. By 2020, the world’s most populous nation could possibly be the world’s horniest as well, with over 30 million surplus males. This group of young single …
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The three-plus decades since the inception of the ‘one child’ policy have resulted in a huge female shortage in China. The country is now seriously unbalanced, with 18 million more boys than girls. By 2020, there will be some 30 million surplus men in China, a condition some demographers call—in all seriousness—a male bulge. The laws of supply and demand, …
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Earlier this summer while helping tidy my father-in-law’s basement, I stumbled on a 1972 Newsweek copy headlined, “The China Nixon Will See.” It was an enthralling, touching, and at times hilarious period piece. China was still very much closed off to the West, and Newsweek recounted tales by early visitors describing “a land without drug addiction or pollution, without crime …
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BREAKING: Mei Fong on the End of the One Child Policy
[See also: Mei’s Q&A, and a full list of appearances in the news.] The New Yorker: Judging China’s One-Child Policy CBS: Most populous nation expands child limits NBC News: China to End Decades Old One-Child Policy as Population Ages, FRI, OCT 30 LA Times: China’s one-child policy is now a two-child policy, Julie Makinen, October 29 New York Times: Q. and …
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