{"product_id":"one-child-the-story-of-chinas-most-radical-experiment","title":"One Child The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they \u003cbr\u003e\nhoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China's poorest and increase \u003cbr\u003e\nthe country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the\u003cbr\u003e\n book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population\u003cbr\u003e\n grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young \u003cbr\u003e\nworkers.    Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy's \u003cbr\u003e\nrepercussions on every sector of Chinese society. In One Child, she \u003cbr\u003e\nexplores its true human impact, traveling across China to meet the \u003cbr\u003e\npeople who live with its consequences. Their stories reveal a dystopian \u003cbr\u003e\nreality: unauthorized second children ignored by the state, \u003cbr\u003e\nonly-children supporting aging parents and grandparents on their own, \u003cbr\u003e\nvillages teeming with ineligible bachelors, and an ungoverned adoption \u003cbr\u003e\nmarket stretching across the globe. Fong tackles questions that have \u003cbr\u003e\nmajor implications for China's future: whether its \"Little Emperor\" \u003cbr\u003e\ncohort will make for an entitled or risk-averse generation; how China \u003cbr\u003e\nwill manage to support itself when one in every four people is over \u003cbr\u003e\nsixty-five years old; and above all, how much the one-child policy may \u003cbr\u003e\nend up hindering China's growth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"mei fong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44213731721276,"sku":"9781780748450","price":896.25,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/one-child-the-story-of-china-s-most-radical-experiment-9781780748450.jpg?v=1776715419","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/one-child-the-story-of-chinas-most-radical-experiment","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}