Description
| Product ID: | 9781786997326 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Secrets and Siblings |
| Subtitle: | The Vanished Lives of China’s One Child Policy |
| Authors: | Author: Mari Manninen |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Reportage & collected journalism, Ethical issues: abortion and birth control, Gender studies, gender groups, Ethical issues: abortion & birth control, Gender studies, gender groups, China |
| Description: | What has happened to the secret babies born under China’s one child policy, so many of whom are now adults? Thirty-two years ago Mrs Li and Mr Wu from Zhejiang abandoned their second baby daughter at a marketplace. Mrs Wang Maochen from Beijing has seven children, but six of them are illegal so they could not go to university, could not take a job, go to the doctor, or marry, or even buy a train ticket. Zhao Min from Guangzhou first learned about the concept of a sibling at university, in her town there were no sisters or brothers.With the Chinese government now adapting to a two child policy, Secrets and Siblings outlines the scale of its tragic consequences, showing how Chinese family and society has been forever changed. In doing so it 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.At once brutal and beautifully hopeful, Secrets and Siblings asks what the state and its children will do now that they are becoming adults. |
| Imprint Name: | Zed Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-11-15 |
