With the Chinese government now adapting to a two-child policy, Manninen outlines the scale of the one child policy's tragic consequences, showing how Chinese family and society has been forever changed. In doing so the author 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, and she asks what the state and its children will do now that they are becoming adults. --From publisher description.
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With the Chinese government now adapting to a two-child policy, Manninen outlines the scale of the one child policy's tragic consequences, showing how Chinese family and society has been forever changed. In doing so the author 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, and she asks what the state and its children will do now that they are becoming adults. --From publisher description.
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