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Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China's One-Child Policy by Vanessa L. Fong Details

The first generation of children born under the one-child policy in China is now in adulthood. What do these children love? What are their values, goals and interests? What types…

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The first generation of children born under the one-child policy in China is now in adulthood. What do these children love? What are their values, goals and interests? What types of relationships do they have with their families? This is the first in-depth study to analyze what looks like growth as the vanguard of modernization designated by the state.

Based on ethnographic surveys and research in China, where the author lived with only teenage children and observed their homes and classrooms for 27 months between 1997 and 2002, the book explores the social, economic and psychological consequences of the government's decision to accelerate fertility. transmission.

Only hope shows how the one-child policy has succeeded in achieving its goals, but with unintended consequences. Children are expected to be the only providers of basic support and care for their retired parents, grandparents and guardians, and will be allowed only a very lucrative situation by providing so many dependents.

Only a small number of children aspire to an elite position, although few can do so. Such aspirations increase tension and competition, as well as intense, intense participation..



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