'I could hear the baby cry. They killed my baby ... yet I couldn’t do a thing': The countless tragedies of China’s one-child policy
'I could hear the baby cry. They killed my baby ... yet I couldn’t do a thing': The countless tragedies of China’s one-child policy
- November 15, 2015
- Wang Feng, sociology professor, is quoted in the South China Morning Post Nov. 15, 2015
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From the South China Morning Post:
“The claim that China’s one-child policy has had a major role in controlling China’s
population growth and in propelling China’s economic boom is one of the major myths
associated with the policy, and is fundamentally a false claim,” said Wang, a demographer
at the University of California, Irvine.
For the full story, please visit http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1879116/countless-tragedies-chinas-one-child-policy.
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