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‘One of the most troubling social policies of modern times’
China enacted its one-child policy in 1980. It was met with wildly divergent opinions, and resulted in suffering and trauma on a scale that family planners never anticipated.
This week on TikTok: China’s population decline and the history of Beijing’s subway
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Guangxi officials accused of baby trafficking during one-child era
Allegations of Chinese family planners engaging in child trafficking more than three decades ago has brought a dark chapter in the country’s birth control history back to the spotlight.
The state of Chinese feminism in 2022 with Leta Hong Fincher
Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal crackdown on online feminist activism in recent months, Dr. Leta Hong Fincher sees a glimmer of hope in the rising public outrage over victims of human trafficking. Even as civil society shrinks, new feminist spaces like bookstores and cafés are emerging.
Reproductive clinics benefit as China incentivizes higher fertility rates
In a bid to boost China’s declining birth rates, Beijing is adding reproductive technologies to public hospitals’ health insurance programs. Fertility firms are cashing in.
China abolishes two-child policy, but very few women want three babies
Facing an aging population and declining birth rates, Beijing has further relaxed family planning policies. However, young Chinese people don’t seem interested.
China’s demographic crisis ‘faster and bigger’ than thought, census results to show population peaked: FT
Results from the latest Chinese census, which have not yet been released, will show that China’s population declined for the first time since 1949, according to the Financial Times.
The policy proposals that the Chinese internet hates — online buzz about the Two Sessions
During this year’s Two Sessions meetings, while many suggestions — such as improving laws protecting animals and legalizing egg freezing for single women — have received positive feedback from the public, some delegates dug themselves into unpopular positions by suggesting things that were greeted with wide criticism on the Chinese internet.
Chinese parents who lose their only child — a tragedy so common there’s a word for it
The death of a child is the ultimate tragedy. But in China, parents who lose their only child are a special case, especially if they gave birth during the country’s one-child policy era. For many of them, their grief knows no end.
‘To be a Chinese mother, you need a strong heart’: A conversation with a young mother in China
China may have abolished its one-child policy, but motherhood remains fraught with obstacles. On a blustery Beijing winter afternoon, I paid a visit…
Chinese Corner: Dolce & Gabbana’s cultural appropriation and ‘China’s Elon Musk’
In this installment of Jiayun Feng’s weekly review of interesting nonfiction on the Chinese internet, she looks at Dolce & Gabbana’s long-standing racism toward China…
Falling birth rates and infant deaths
Caixin reports that 630,000 fewer babies were born in China in 2017 than the year before, despite the loosening of the one-child policy. In the first…
The plight of China’s family planners
With the loosening of China’s one-child policy, the vast bureaucracy that once enforced it faces an uncertain future and anger from the public.
Sinica extra: Q&A with Mei Fong on her Pulitzer win, meeting Queen Elizabeth and foreign correspondence
Mei Fong, the guest on this week’s Sinica Podcast about China’s one-child policy, shares stories about her career and life, including her Pulitzer win and a royal meeting that inspired her to enter journalism.
