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 …
Continue Reading...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 …
Continue Reading...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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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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