A billboard promotes the one-child policy in China. The strategy has resulted in a hugely imbalanced population. Photo: Alamy
A billboard promotes the one-child policy in China. The strategy has resulted in a hugely imbalanced population. Photo: Alamy

Little emperors to little slaves: how one-child policy will play out in China, according to author Mei Fong

Pulitzer Prize winner ponders the burden for only children of caring for their elderly parents, and talks about why publishers in Hong Kong and Taiwan wouldn’t touch her book One Child and why she funded its Chinese translation

A billboard promotes the one-child policy in China. The strategy has resulted in a hugely imbalanced population. Photo: Alamy
A billboard promotes the one-child policy in China. The strategy has resulted in a hugely imbalanced population. Photo: Alamy
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