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Friday, March 30, 2012
LI TIANBING: MY IMAGINARY SIBLINGS: The Guardian (UK)
feature: The only memento Li Tianbing has of his childhood is five photographs. Tattered now, black and white, slightly out of focus. He's lucky, he says, to have even those: cameras weren't plentiful in Guilin, southern China, when he was a small boy in the 1970s, a three-day, four-night train journey from Beijing. He saw one only rarely, when his father – a soldier in the People's Army propaganda unit – managed to borrow one. As Li's dad could come home for only one or two days each month, and as he didn't often manage to borrow a camera, five photos is what there are. more Labels: childhood, China, one-child policy, population control, siblings Thursday, January 05, 2012
CHINA: THE WRITING ON THE WALL: Evan Osmos
blogs at the New Yorker: A fresh government poster went up the other day on the alley wall not far from our front door in Beijing. I barely paused at the cheery patriotic exhortations across the flag—Is that a sign I’ve been here a while?—and my eye fell instead on a curious thing about the family: it has two kids. more Labels: aging, children, China, demographics, economics, one-child policy, population control Tuesday, January 12, 2010
SKEWED CHINA BIRTH RATE TO LEAVE 24 MILLION MEN SINGLE: Agence France Presse
reports: More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported on Monday, citing a study that blamed sex-specific abortions as a major factor. more Labels: abortion, China, demographics, one-child policy |
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