Secrets and siblings the vanished lives of China's one child policy / Mari Manninen ; translated by Mia Spangenberg.
| Author/creator | Manninen, Mari |
| Other author | Spangenberg, Mia M. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Zed Books Ltd/FILI, 2019. |
| Description | vi, 215 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Yhden lapsen kansa. English |
| Portion of title | Vanished lives of China's one child policy |
| Contents | In the beginning: the thirty-six year' experiment that transformed the life of every person in China -- Undocumented: Mrs Wang had too many children. Now her children can't get a job, get married, or even board a train -- Unborn: Mr Li worked for the government, so his child had to be aborted. Mrs Zhang's fetus was taken by force -- No family: Hannah searches for the Chinese family who abandoned her. Mrs Li searches for the daughter she gave up -- No discipline: as a child, Zhao thought that meat and seats on the bus were only for children, but she paid a high price for her privileged childhood -- No brothers: Cecily and Zhao have done well in life, because their parents weren't allowed to have a second child -- No wives: women of marrying age are in such short supply that Mr Zhou bought his son a wife from Vietnam -- No children: Mrs Guo's only child died, so she tried to get pregnant again and had twins at the age of fifty-six -- No mercy: Mrs Dong monitored her neighbors' menstrual cycles and pressured them to have abortions, and she's proud of it -- The usual story: Yang gave birth, then suffered through a month of bed rest and a year of her mother-in-law's authority -- How is everyone doing now? |
| Abstract | With the Chinese government now adapting to a two-child policy, Manninen outlines the scale of the one child policy's tragic consequences, showing how Chinese family and society has been forever changed. In doing so the author also challenges many of our misconceptions about family life in China, arguing that it is the state, rather than popular prejudice, that has hindered the adoption of girls within China, and she asks what the state and its children will do now that they are becoming adults. --From publisher description. |
| General note | "First published by Atena Kustannus, Finland in 2016 under the title Yhden lapsen kansa: kiinan salavauvat, pikkukeisarit ja hyläyt tyttäret." -- Title page verso. |
| General note | "This work has been published with the financial assistance of FILI--Finnish Literature Exchange"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023301121 |
| ISBN | 1786997320 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781786997326 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1786997339 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781786997333 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (mobi) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |