5/29/2023 0 Comments One Child by Mei Fong![]() ![]() Their stories reveal a dystopian reality: unauthorized second children ignored by the state, only children supporting aging parents and grandparents on their own, villages teeming with ineligible bachelors. In One Child, she explores its true human impact, traveling across China to meet the people who live with its consequences. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy’s repercussions on every sector of Chinese society. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after over three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birthrates would help lift China’s poorest and increase the country’s global stature. An intimate investigation of the world’s largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come and what that means for the rest of the world ![]()
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