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Written on Nov, 13, 2015 by in | Leave a comment

Check back for a complete, updated list of Mei’s latest interviews and media appearances. Writings, articles and talks by Mei Fong What We Lose When We Lose Female Reporters (The New York Times, Jan. 11, 2018) Sex Dolls Are Replacing China’s Missing Women: The country’s gender gap has left young men desperate for high-tech alternatives (Foreign Policy, Sep. 28, 2017) My son …

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Written on Nov, 16, 2015 by in | Leave a comment

Easing Beijing’s old one-child policy still means state intrusion and won’t halt China’s demographic crisis By Mei Fong Yicheng is a dusty little region in China’s coal belt, with appalling smog levels even by Chinese standards. The pall extends all the way up to the hills, where people dwell in quaint, hobbit-like caves, growing soot-covered crops of sunflowers. It is, …

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Written on Nov, 03, 2015 by in | Leave a comment

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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Written on Nov, 15, 2014 by in | Leave a comment

  “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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