Ebook {Epub PDF} One Child: The Story of Chinas Most Radical Experiment by Mei Fong

China’s one-child policy was crafted by military scientists, who believed any regrettable side effects could be swiftly mitigated and women’s fertility rates easily adjusted. China’s economists, sociologists, and demographers, who might have injected more wisdom and balance, were largely left out of the decision making, as the Cultural Revolution had starved social scientists of resources and prestige/5(). “Mei Fong’s brilliant exploration of China’s one-child policy must change the way we talk about China’s rise. One Child is lucid, humane, and unflinching; it is vital reading for anyone focused on the future of China’s economy, its environment, or its politics. It not only clarifies facts and retires myths, but also confronts the deepest questions about the meaning of parenthood.”/5(). One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment by Mei Fong is a look at more aspects of this government enforced policy than you would expect. Besides the obvious major imbalance between boys and girls ( boys for every girls) because of the cultural preference for boys, China finds themselves with many potential lifetime bachelors who can never find a mate/5.

— Mei Fong, One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment (/) I bought this book at BBW Alor Setar last year. This is an informative read regarding on Communi Driving to Zhu's home, I saw plenty of examples of one-child propaganda. 'one child the story of china s most radical experiment by may 29th, - one child the story of china s most radical experiment by mei fong review the consequences of the one child policy will affect not just china but the wider world economy for decades to e'. Thus began the one-child policy, the world's most radical social experiment, which endured for thirty-five years and continues to shape how one in six people in this world are born, live, and die. Like crash dieting, the one-child policy was begun for reasons that had merit.

China's Most Radical Experiment. The Communist Party leadership, driven by fears that an aging and shrinking population could threaten China's economic rise, ended its decades-old - and highly controversial - one-child policy in October last year. All married couples, it was announced, would now be allowed to have two children. “Mei Fong’s brilliant exploration of China’s one-child policy must change the way we talk about China’s rise. One Child is lucid, humane, and unflinching; it is vital reading for anyone focused on the future of China’s economy, its environment, or its politics. It not only clarifies facts and retires myths, but also confronts the deepest questions about the meaning of parenthood.”. Mei Fong explores life, death and loneliness in one-child China. We start Mei Fong's book on a train from Beijing to a town in Sichuan. It's and a deadly earthquake has just struck southern.