Bringing an end to a senseless policy (Op-ed)

Bringing an end to a senseless policy (Op-ed)
- November 19, 2013
- An op-ed by Wang Feng, sociology professor, is featured in the New York Times November 19, 2013
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From the NYT:
China announced last week that it would loosen its famous “one-child” policy, enforced
since 1980. The world’s most controversial birth-control policy, initially imposed
as an emergency measure at the start of the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping, seems
to finally be on its way out, more than a generation later… Wang Feng, a professor
of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and a professor at Fudan University
in Shanghai, is the author of “Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist
Urban China.”
For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/opinion/chinas-one-child-rule-should-b....
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