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One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment (2015) by Mei Fong is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**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** When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China’s poorest and increase the country’s global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy’s repercussions on every sector of Chinese society. In __One Child__, she explores its true human impact, traveling across China to meet the people who live with its consequences. 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, and an ungoverned adoption market stretching across the globe. Fong tackles questions that have major implications for China’s future: whether its “Little Emperor” cohort will make for an entitled or ri

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Mei Fong
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9780544815605
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Anthropology, Political Science, History
Rating
3.92 / 5 (1,108 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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