![]() In this critically acclaimed account, she weaves together personal stories, history and politics to produce an extraordinary, evocative investigation into how the policy has changed China and why the repercussions will be felt across the world for decades to come. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mei Fong has spent eight years documenting the effects of the one-child policy across all of Chinese society. They have bought an apartment they hope will improve his eligibility in a nation that has 30 million bachelors, or 'bare branches'. Tian Qingeng and his parents are deeply in debt. Liu Ting becomes a national hero when he brings his mother to college, a celebration of filial piety in a nation that now legally compels adult children to visit their elderly parents. A lovely antidote to decades of chillingly cold Party-speak from Beijing. But Mei Fong has also given us a wry, bittersweet, and often very personal look at how courtship, marriage, birth, and death interact in the post-Mao Chinese family. Three days after the event, Tang is too dehydrated to cry. One Child is a timely and informative look into China’s infamous effort to control its enormous population. ![]() Tang Shuxiu and her husband are on an 800-mile journey from Beijing to Shifang, where they believe their only child has perished in a recent earthquake. ![]()
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