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One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment

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by Mei Fong


  gender imbalance and, 116

  Hanbin (Chen) in, 103

  home nursing services and, 145

  hukou and, 80

  human rights lawyers and, 81

  marriage market in, 120

  National Museum in, 38

  population and, 3, 46

  shidu parents and, 41

  Songtang hospice in, 158

  Tiantan Park in, 147

  two children and, xii, 45, 59

  United Nations Fund for Population Activities and, 77

  in vitro fertilization clinic in, xvi

  Yang Zhizhu in, 11

  See also Olympics, 2008 Beijing

  Being Mortal (Gawande), 149

  BGI Shenzhen, 207

  “Big Ball, Small Ball” theory, 35

  Bird’s Nest Stadium, 33–34, 35, 96

  birth control, 51, 68, 70, 73

  birth-planning machinery, 66–67

  birth quotas, 73

  birth tourism, 6, 204

  bonus systems, 75

  Book of Songs, 108

  Boston Globe, 181

  Bowen, Zhao, 207

  Bra Town, xi

  Brave New World (Huxley), 65, 207, 209

  bribery, 6, 75

  bride buying, 16

  bride prices. See caili (reverse dowry)

  Brightman, Sarah, 36

  Buccone (sex toy shop), 132

  Bush, George W., 34

  Bu Xiang, 106

  C

  caili (reverse dowry), 109, 111, 112, 113, 116–17

  Caixin, 172, 184

  Cai Yong, 10, 59

  California, 198, 200, 202, 205, 211

  Cambodia, 130

  Cameron, Lisa, 91, 92

  CaoCaoBa, 124

  capitalism, 7, 161, 197

  Care for Girls campaign, 133

  CCTV (national broadcaster), 87, 193, 194

  Center for Immigration Studies, 204

  Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 156–57

  Central Adoption Agency, 173

  Chang, Leslie, 6

  Changning orphanage, 179

  Changsha City, 206

  Charter 08, 37

  Chen, Danyan, 93

  Chen, Jenova, 97

  Cheng, Nancy, 132

  Chengdu, 13, 44–45

  Chengjie (son of Yang Libing and Chen Zhimei), 186, 187

  Chen Guangcheng, 80–81

  Chen Hong, 160

  Chen Shoutian, 151

  Chen Youhua, 210

  Chen Zhimei, 185, 186, 189

  Chenzhou City, 197

  Che Yuelian (Moon Lotus), 68–70

  Children of Men, The (James), 85

  Children’s Hope, 172

  Chin, Josh, 96

  China Center for Adoption Affairs (CCA), 174

  China/Chinese, distinction between, ix

  China Ghosts (Gammage), 169, 189

  China Railway Construction Group, 95–96

  China Youth and Children Research Center, 90

  Chinese Academy of Sciences, 196

  Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 114, 228n

  Chinese Association for Population Studies, 46

  Chinese Dream (television show), 106

  Chinese University of Science and Technology, 53

  Chiya, Lisa, 200

  Chongqing, 24–25, 117

  Christian Science Monitor, 60

  Christmas cake, 126

  civil service exams, 100

  Clement, Charles, xv

  clomiphene, 193

  Cloud (video game), 98

  Club of Rome, 50, 56

  cluster leaders, 65–66

  COBRA (health insurance program), 202

  CoMensha, 173

  Communism, 149, 150, 155, 197

  Communist Party, 28, 53, 87, 126, 197, 208, 210

  economic growth and, xiv

  Gu Baochang and, 58

  on limiting family size, x, 54

  marriage anxiety and, 125

  Olympics and, 4

  on one-child policy, xiv, 10

  on Tangshan earthquake, 12–13

  on use of diaosi term, 96

  women’s rights and, 102

  Communist Party Central Committee, 49

  computer games, 97–98, 104

  confinement centers, 204–5

  Confucius Institute, 127, 181

  Confucius workshops. See woman morality courses/Confucius workshops

  Connelly, Matthew, 56

  contraception. See birth control

  corruption, 73

  crime, 115, 116

  Crossing Bridge Noodles, 101

  Ctrip (online travel site), 60

  Cultural Revolution, 5, 38, 45, 48, 50, 51, 57, 63, 149

  demography and, 46

  filial piety and, 87

  higher education in, 94

  Little Emperors and, 92, 93

  National College Entrance Exams reinstated after, 100

  Olympics and, 4

  social scientists in, xiii

  Tangshan earthquake and, 13

  cybernetics, 53

  D

  dancing grannies, 147

  dandu policy, 59, 62–64, 165, 208

  Danshen Julebu (Singles Club), 124

  dating, 102, 120, 121–22, 124. See also matchmaking

  death/afterlife, xvi, 161–64

  demography, study of, 46

  demystification of parenthood, 155

  den Boer, Andrea, 114, 115

  Deng (husband of Feng Jianmei), 61

  Deng Xiaoping, 3, 48, 141

  Deutsche Bank, 7

  dialou, 134

  diaosi, 96

  Diaosi Man (online comedy show), 96

  D.I.C.E. Awards, 99

  Ding Wanlong, 18

  Ding Xuan, 127–28

  DiYi Consulting, 199, 203–4

  DNA testing, 183–84, 186, 189

  Document 7, 71

  Dollar Store, xi

  domestic violence, 115

  Dongguan, 128, 130

  Dongyue Miao, 162

  Double II, 125

  dowries, 109, 111, 112, 113. See also caili (reverse dowry)

  Duan Yauneng, 171, 172

  Du Benfeng, 104

  Durihana Association, 130

  Dying Rooms, The (documentary), 175

  E

  earthquake in Sichuan (2008), 1–6, 12–21, 24, 26, 28, 29, 32, 42

  Ai Weiwei and, 35

  Lin Hao and, 34

  museums on, 38–41

  pig that survived, 39

  Shejiantai destroyed by, 40

  statistics on, 38–39

  earthquake in Tangshan (1976), 4, 12–13

  Eberstadt, Nicholas, 56

  economics, xiii, xv, 6, 7–9, 46, 50, 60, 61, 141, 209

  aging population and, 155, 156–57, 161

  ascendance of China as global superpower, 37

  China as world’s second largest economy, 141

  China’s economic growth, x–xii, 87, 92, 94, 140

  of fertility treatments, 195–96, 199, 205–6

  gender imbalance and, 116, 117

  income disparity, 95

  population and, 48, 56

  Economist, xiv, 115

  Economist Intelligence Unit, 158

  Edmunds, Alex, 124

  Egan, Raymond B., 190

  Ehrlich, Paul, 49, 108

  elder abuse, 151–52, 155

  enqing, 155

  Enshi, 59

  environment, xiv–xv

  pollution, 7, 9, 19, 26, 30, 43, 104, 157, 196

  Three Gorges Project and, 57

  Environmental Protection Committee (of State Council), 57

  Ethiopia, 171

  eugenics, 28, 206, 208

  Evans, Karin, 188

  exams/tests, 100–102

  F

  factories. See manufacturing

  Families with Children from China (FCC), 181

  family, defined, 125 />
  family fragility, 104

  family planning

  policy before one-child policy, xiii

  rules and family formations, 125

  family-planning commission, 65, 133

  family-planning officials, 37, 62, 66, 71–72

  forced abortion and, xv, 167

  seizing children for adoption, 12, 172, 184–89

  surrogacy and, 195

  visiting homes, 27

  in Yicheng, 68–69

  See also population police

  Family Planning Research Institute, 25

  family ties, defined, 166

  fangnu, 117

  Fang Wenxian, 133

  Fan Jianchuan, 38

  Feng Jianmei, 60–61, 62, 72, 196

  Feng Wengguang, 130–31, 132

  fertility

  drop in, xii, xiii–xiv, 209

  sterilization for lowering, 68

  See also fertility rates

  fertility rates, xiii, 56, 58, 59

  fertility treatments, 27–28, 190–93, 205–6

  clinics for, 193, 199

  designer baby techniques, 205–7

  drugs for, 193, 194

  economics of, 195–96, 199, 205–6

  multiple births, 6, 192–95, 198, 205, 212

  See also surrogacy

  filial piety, 86–88, 103, 107, 154–55, 161

  Financial Times, 124

  finding notices, 178, 180

  fireworks, 1, 21, 35

  Fishman, Ted, 140

  Fong, Andrew, 23, 31, 33

  Fong, Eternal Virtue, 212–13

  Fong, Mei

  background of, 5

  birth of children of, 212–13

  family of, 133–36, 140, 213

  fertility treatments for, xv–xvi, 190–93, 211–12

  move to California, 97

  pregnancy/miscarriage of, 23, 29, 31–32, 33, 191

  as Wall Street Journal correspondent, xi–xii, 5, 23

  Fong, Steadfast Virtue, 212–14

  Fong, Vanessa, 129

  Footloose (movie), 175

  Ford, Peter, 60

  forgetting, 40–41

  Fourteenth Amendment (of US constitution), 205

  “4:2:1” phrase, 45

  Francis, Diane, xv

  Fu (god of Luck), 140–41, 158

  Fujian Province, 74

  fuwa (good luck dolls), 32

  G

  Gale, Julia Ming, 181

  games. See computer games

  Gammage, Jeff, 169, 189

  Gandhi, Indira, 50, 77

  Gansu Province, 208

  Gao (family-planning official), 74–77

  Gao, Nurse, 144–49, 151

  gaokao, 100–101, 102

  Gawande, Atul, 149, 150

  gay people, 203–4

  GDP (gross domestic product), ix, xi, 48, 141, 157

  gendercide, 59, 129

  gender imbalance, xiii, xv, 7, 48, 59, 109–10, 114–20, 129, 133, 139, 228n

  bachelors finding it hard to find brides, 18

  dating and, 124

  marriage anxiety and, 125

  sex dolls and, 131, 132

  See also son preference

  genetic diseases, 207–8, 212

  Ghost Month, 163–64

  Gini coefficient, 95

  “Going Home” tours, 181

  Granny square dancing, 147

  Great Famine, 92

  Great Leap Forward, 48, 57, 193

  Greenhalgh, Susan, 3, 45, 53, 55, 209

  gross domestic product. See GDP (gross domestic product)

  Guangdong, 78, 128

  Guangdong Family Planning Commission, 194–95

  Guangdong University of Technology, 131

  guanggun (bare branches), 110, 116, 135. See also gender imbalance

  Guanggun Jie (Singles’ Day), 125

  Guangzhou, 130, 132, 151, 177, 178, 194, 195

  Guangzhou’s Cultural Square, 87

  Gu Baochang, 10, 58

  Guizhou Province, 172

  Guobao (husband of Li Jiayi), 166

  Guo Jingjing, 34–35

  H

  Hague Adoption Convention, 174

  Half the Sky (foundation), 172, 232n

  Hall, Heather, 170

  Hampshire College, 174

  Hanbin, Chen, 103–4

  Han Chinese, 36

  Handmaid’s Tale, The (Atwood), 196, 197

  Han dynasty, 110

  Hangzhou, 47, 79

  Han Han, 85, 102

  Hanzhong, 110

  Harvard University, 194, 209

  He, Vincent, 130, 132

  health-care reforms, 156

  health-care systems, 7

  health insurance. See medical insurance

  Hebei, 128

  Hebei Province Traditional Culture Research Association, 127

  hei haizi (black child), 11

  Henan, 71, 128

  higher education, 94

  Hitchens, Christopher, 1

  Hitdoll Inc., 131, 132

  Holocaust Museum (Washington, DC), 40

  home health care, 143–46

  Hong Fincher, Leta, 120, 126

  Hooters, 8

  Hornby, Nick, 137

  hospices, xvi, 138, 157–60, 164–68

  household registration. See hukous/household registration

  Hsu, Steve, 207

  Hua Guofeng, 48

  Huang Denggao, 44, 67–68, 69

  Huang Guangyu, 95

  Huangjiapu, 65, 66, 67, 68

  Huang Qi, 29

  huaqiao (overseas Chinese families), 5

  Hudson, Valerie, 114, 115

  Huimei (daughter of Tang Shuxiu), 1, 14, 16–20, 22, 30

  Huis, 158

  hukous/household registration, 11, 15, 80, 123, 125, 147, 154, 187

  human rights lawyers, 81

  Human Rights Watch, 175–76

  Hunan Province, 78, 171, 172, 173, 179, 197

  Hut, Ina, 172–73

  Huxley, Aldous, 65, 207, 209

  Hu Yaobang, 45, 48

  hypergamy, 121, 126

  I

  IKEA, 8–9

  income disparity, 95

  India, 50, 51, 109, 114, 140, 199, 210

  Indonesia, 50

  infanticide, 16, 44, 59, 109, 114, 129, 197

  infant mortality, 8, 10, 47, 152

  infertility, 23, 26, 196–97

  infertility rates, 191

  INSEAD (business school), 142

  intelligence, 206–7

  in vitro fertilization (IVF), xv–xvi, 191, 192, 199, 207

  Iron Gourd Village, 16, 18

  IUDs (intrauterine devices), 68, 70

  IVF. See in vitro fertilization (IVF)

  J

  James, P. D., 85

  Japan, 90, 101, 115, 126

  Jeans City, xi

  Jiaen, Liu, 193

  Jiaen Hospital, 192, 193

  Jiamusi, 147

  Jiang, Jennifer, 198–203

  Jiang, Tony, 198–204, 206

  Jiangsu, 59, 73

  Jiangxi, 80

  Jiayuan (matchmaking site), 120–21, 122

  jihua shengyu (planned birth program), 6

  Jinling Evening News, 96

  Jin Yu, 189

  Jiuquan, 59

  Johnson, Kay Ann, 174, 175

  journalism, citizen, 13

  Journey (video game), 98–99

  K

  Kahn, Gus, 190

  Kawaii Club, 131

  Kellehear, Allan, 137

  KFC, 9

  Koolhaas, Rem, 30

  Kroeber, Arthur, xi

  Krywokulsky, Amanda, 200–203

  kubi, 94–95

  Kunming, xvi, 12, 13, 32, 137, 157, 158, 164

  Kunming’s No. 3 People’s Hospital’s Section on Palliative Care, 138, 165

  L

  labor shortage, xi–xii, xiii–xiv, 48, 208

  “Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign (wanxishao), xiii,
10, 47, 48

  Lavely, William, xiii–xiv

  lawyers, human rights, 81

  Lee, Kim, 115

  “Leftover Women” campaign, 125–26, 127

  Legend of Sword and Fairy (video game), 98

  Lehi, Utah, 175

  Lehman Brothers, 37

  Lei Yuanli, 197

  Leshan Buddha, 26

  Li, Uncle, 81–83

  Liang, James, 60

  Liang Zhongtang, 44–48, 52–53, 54, 58, 60, 63–64

  Lian Si, 95

  life expectancy, 46, 47, 141

  Li Guangyuan, 52, 53, 54

  Li Jiayi, 164–68

  Li Keqiang, ix

  Lim, Louisa, 41, 84

  Limits to Growth, The (Club of Rome), 50

  Lin’an, 88, 89

  Ling (daughter of Chen Zhimei), 185–86

  Lin Hao, 34

  Li Shizhen, 153

  Li Shunqiang, 24–25

  Little Emperors, 85–86, 90–92, 93, 103–4, 139–40

  Chen (Jenova) and, 97–99

  dating/marriage for, 102–3, 104

  Du Benfeng on family fragility and, 104–5

  employment for, 95–96, 99–100

  kubi and, 94–95

  letters from only children, 93–94

  Liu Ting and his mother, 86–89, 92, 93, 96, 105–7

  test taking and, 100–102

  liudong renkou (flowing population), 15

  Liu Jishu, 14–18, 20–21, 22

  Liu Shaokun, 29

  Liu Ting, 86–89, 92, 93, 96, 105–7, 109, 228n

  Liu Xiaobo, 37

  Li Xiuzhen, 52

  Li Xue (Snow), 11–12

  Los Angeles Times, 172

 

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