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One Child, One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment

Author: Mei Fong

Oneworld Publications, London, 2016, pp. 272 pb

In this book the journalist Mei Fong explains the context of the one child policy introduced in 1978 to control China’s growing population,and enforced through sterilization, abortion and fines.   The policy was modified in January 2016, when couples were allowed to have two children.

See also: Fong, Mei, ‘Sterilization, abortion, fines: How China brutally enforced its 1-child policy’, New York Post, 3 January 2016.

https://nypost.com/2016/01/03/how-chinas-pregnancy-police-brutally-enfor...