One Child (36 page)
Lavely, William,
xiii–xiv
lawyers, human rights,
81
Lee, Kim,
115
“Leftover Women” campaign,
125–26
,
127
Legend of Sword and Fairy
(video game),
98
Lehi, Utah,
175
Lehman Brothers,
37
Lei Yuanli,
197
Leshan Buddha,
26
Li, Uncle,
81–83
Liang, James,
60
Liang Zhongtang,
44–48
,
52–53
,
54
,
58
,
60
,
63–64
Lian Si,
95
Li Jiayi,
164–68
Li Keqiang,
ix
Limits to Growth, The
(Club of Rome),
50
Ling (daughter of Chen Zhimei),
185–86
Lin Hao,
34
Li Shizhen,
153
Li Shunqiang,
24–25
Little Emperors,
85–86
,
90–92
,
93
,
103–4
,
139–40
Chen (Jenova) and,
97–99
Du Benfeng on family fragility and,
104–5
kubi
and,
94–95
letters from only children,
93–94
test taking and,
100–102
liudong renkou
(flowing population),
15
Liu Shaokun,
29
Liu Ting,
86–89
,
92
,
93
,
96
,
105–7
,
109
,
228n
Liu Xiaobo,
37
Li Xiuzhen,
52
Li Xue (Snow),
11–12
Los Angeles Times
,
172
Lost Daughters of China, The
(Evans),
188
Lotus (matchmaking site),
120–21
Lu (god of Prosperity),
140–41
,
158
Ma Ke’s No. 3 People’s Hospital’s Section on Palliative Care,
157–60
Malaysia,
5
manufacturing,
xi–xii
,
8
,
9
,
13–14
,
18
death of, after 1976 earthquake,
4
dowries and era of,
109
filial piety and,
87
on population control,
53
Ma Qingju (Green Chrysanthemum),
65–67
Marketplace
,
172
Márquez, Gabriel García,
40
marriage
aging population and,
147
anxiety,
125
bachelors seeking,
116–24
birth certificates and,
125
certificates,
192
Chinese society and,
41
economics of,
117
ending in divorce,
102
fake,
6
law for property,
120
“Leftover Women” campaign and,
126
markets,
120–21
See also
runaway brides
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
50
matchmaking,
120–24
Maternal Management Organization,
204
Ma Xiaohong,
209
Meigon (adopted child of Brian Stuy),
177–78
Meikina (adopted daughter of Brian and Jeannine Stuy),
176
,
177
Ministry of Civil Affairs,
164
,
174
,
176
mistresses,
197
MIT Technology Review
,
97
Miyazaki, Hayao,
97
Mormons,
175
mortality rates,
56
Mosher, Steve,
61
Motorola,
141–42
Mount Penglai,
158–60
multiple births,
192–95
,
198
,
205
,
212
museums,
38–41
names, Chinese,
ix
Nanjing,
96
Nanjing University,
125
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab,
51
National Bureau of Statistics,
ix
,
218n
National College Entrance Exams,
100
National Maternal and Infant Health Law,
207–8
National Moral Hero awards,
87
,
92
,
96
,
106
National Museum (Beijing),
38
National People’s Congress,
62
,
150
National Population and Family Planning Commission,
48
,
52
,
58
,
59
,
62
,
66
,
72–73
National Public Radio,
84
National Science Institute,
91
negotiation/rule bending,
6
networking events,
124
Newton, Grace,
182
New York Times
,
113
nianhua
(New Year pictures),
39–40
,
41
Nien Rebellion,
114
North Korea,
130
No-Scalpel Vasectomies,
24–25
No Turning Back,
103
nuclear families,
125
Olympics, 2008 Beijing,
4–5
,
11
,
28–30
,
32–37
,
96
one-child family risk,
104
one-child policy
believed to be voluntary,
77
bias against females and,
133
crafted by military scientists,
xiii
decentralizing,
71
as detrimental in countries bordering China,
129–30
elderly population and,
157
ending of,
208
enforcement of,
70
excesses of,
x
legal challenges to,
80–81
percent of China’s urban households subject to,
86
propaganda,
26
quantity vs. quality in,
126
reform of,
58–64
shidu
parents of,
41
studies on,
90–92
as temporary,
49
urban Chinese females benefit from,
128–29
See also
aging population; earthquake in Sichuan (2008); economics; family-planning officials; gender imbalance; labor shortage; Little Emperors; multiple births; population control symposium (1979, in Chengdu); sports program; two children
Only-Child Declaration, The
,
93
only-child generation.
See
Little Emperors
Opium Wars,
28
Pang, Matthew,
78
Panshi,
155
parasite,
126
Parkinson’s,
165
Pearl River Delta,
xi
Peking University,
53
,
95
,
97
,
194
Peking University Third Hospital,
191
Peng Liyuan,
127–28
People’s Daily
,
96
People’s Republic of Amnesia, The
(Lim),
41
Philadelphia Inquirer
,
189
pig,
39
Pinetree home nursing services company,
143–49
Pinetree lifestyle services company,
141–43
Plomin, Robert,
207
Politburo, China’s,
62
Polo, Marco,
47
polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS),
23
population,
xii
,
46–50
,
54–56
,
58
,
209–10
abortion and,
80
growth internationally,
49–50
issues, awards for solving,
77
Olympics (Beijing, 2008) and control of,
28
slowing growth of,
48
upgrading quality of,
126
Western ideas on reducing,
51
without one-child policy,
10
See also
Olsder, Geert Jan; population control symposium (1979, in Chengdu); population police
Population Bomb, The
(Ehrlich),
49
,
50
population control symposium (1979, in Chengdu),
52–54
population police,
65–84
legal challenges and,
80–81
social compensation fees/fines and,
78–81
Uncle Li on workings of,
81–83
Population System Control
(Song),
57
“Prayer for the Wild at Heart Kept in Cages, A” (Williams),
104
prostitution,
129
Puning City, Guangdong,
78
Qing-era,
114
Qingxue (Little Stream),
165–68
Qian Xinzhong,
77
Qian Xuesen,
51–52
“Raise the Quality, Control the Size” slogan,
126
Red Guards,
45
Rednet (bulletin board),
197
red thread,
188
Red Thread Is Broken, The
(Newton),
189
Research-China,
170
,
176
,
178
,
184
Reuters,
195
“Riddle of Julia Ming Gale, The” (
Boston Globe
),
181
Roland Berger prize,
141–42
Rosenthal, Elisabeth,
113
Rouliqiu
,
146
runaway brides,
108–9
,
111–14
,
130
rural China
aging population in,
151–56
suicide rate in,
113
Russia,
101
Sadik, Nafis,
77
Saffron, Inga,
30–31
Saga Group (United Kingdom),
141
Samford University,
174
sandwich generation,
94
Scharping, Thomas,
46
“Self Deprecation—It’s Time to Stop” (editorial in
People’s Daily
),
96