This week, one of China’s Princesses (female children of China’s old Party members, similar to Princelings), Li Xiaolin, revealed that her biggest regret in life was that she didn’t have a second child. This is nothing new. This is a sentiment that many mothers in China have been feeling for decades and is only one Read More
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End of China's One Child Policy in Sight?
According to a report issued by a government agency and made public through Xinhua, the official news outlet for the Chinese government, it is time to start putting the one child policy to rest in China. A government “think tank” will issue the official report within a couple of weeks (most likely after the National Read More
The Children Everyone Wants
“Why do you want to adopt a baby no one else wants?” This is one of the most common and offensive questions when it comes to adoption. Many people are genuinely curious about the adoption process, which is understandable, and I’m happy to help educate people about the joys of building their family through adoption. Read More
How a Cosmetics Company is Subverting the Chinese State
An ad by cosmetics company SK-II recently went viral in China. The ad tackles the topic of “leftover women,” women in China who are not married by age 25. Watch the ad below. The ad has had millions of views and has sparked debate and discussion around the country. Some people believe the ad is Read More
Adoptive Families Need Parental Leave Too
The following was originally published in the Shenzhen Daily. One day, your parents are gone. Your home is gone. You don’t know where you are. You are in a new, strange place. There are other people around you who seem nice, but they are not your parents. There are other children in this place. You Read More
China Should Accept Syrian Refugees
In the 1930s and 40s, America turned its back on Jewish refugees. Otto Frank, the father of perhaps the most famous Jewish victim of the Holocaust Anne Frank, applied for American visas to get his family to safety, but the family, and thousands of others, were denied, left to be crushed under a wave of Read More
Book Review – Buy Me The Sky by Xinran
I am a big fan of Xinran’s books. It is still difficult to find female Chinese writers writing about women’s issues in China in English. While more Chinese women are taking up the pen regarding these issues, Xinran was one of the first. She was in China collecting women’s stories when many people in China Read More
Interview with Xinran, the Author of Buy Me The Sky
Most readers of this blog know that I am a huge fan of the author Xinran. I reviewed her book “The Good Women of China” here and wrote about her book “Letters From an Unknown Chinese Mother” here. Her latest book “Buy Me The Sky: The remarkable truth of China’s one-child generations” talks about the children Read More
China's Family Planning Policies Still Firmly in Place
Don’t worry, everyone. China still has the most brutal and backward family planning policies in the world. I work at a newspaper, but the biggest news in weeks broke while I was on my way home for the weekend Thursday night. In the 45-minutes it took to get from my office to my home, my Read More
Frog by Mo Yan – Book Review
Talk about disappointing. Two years ago, when Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for literature for Frog, Westerners and Chinese were shocked and elated. The Chinese were ecstatic that a Chinese writer won the honor at all (he’s the only Chinese writer who lives in China to have ever won the prize) and Westerners were Read More