Peng Peiyun, 95, dies; official renounced China’s one-child policy
Peng Peiyun, 95, dies; official renounced China’s one-child policy
- December 24, 2025
- Wang Feng, sociology, The New York Times, Dec. 24, 2025
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“Just as she unwaveringly executed the one-child policy, she became equally adamant about abolishing it a decade later,” Wang Feng, a sociologist at the University of California, Irvine, said in an email. He is a co-author of a coming book about the end of the one-child policy, which draws on an unpublished biography of Ms. Peng, with which she cooperated.
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