Mei Fong One Child (Paperback)
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Further Details Title: One Child Condition: New EAN: 9781786070562 ISBN: 9781786070562 Publisher: Oneworld Publications Format: Paperback Release Date: 02/02/2017 Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 20mm Author: Mei Fong Language: English Subtitle: Life, Love and Parenthood in Modern China ISBN-10: 1786070561 Description: Tang Shuxiu and her husband are on an 800-mile train journey from Beijing to Shifang, where they believe their only child has perished in a recent earthquake. Three days after the event, Tang is too dehydrated to cry. 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. Tian Qingeng and his parents are deeply in debt. They have bought an apartment they hope will improve his eligibility in a nation that has 30 million bachelors, or ‘bare branches’. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mei Fong has spent eight years documenting the effects of the one-child policy across all of Chinese society. 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. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences, Personal Development, Law & Politics Release Year: 2017 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
