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Forbidden Children: China's One-Child Policy

2019/10/22
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播客主持人：本期节目探讨了中国独生子女政策的实施背景、具体措施、以及对社会造成的深远影响。该政策旨在控制人口增长，但同时也带来了许多意想不到的负面后果，例如性别比例失衡、人口老龄化加剧、以及对女性和女童的歧视等。节目中通过具体的案例，展现了政策实施过程中存在的强制堕胎、强制绝育、以及女婴被遗弃或杀害等严重侵犯人权的行为。此外，节目还分析了独生子女政策对中国社会经济发展的影响，指出该政策虽然在短期内取得了一定的经济效益，但长期来看，人口结构的失衡和老龄化问题将对中国经济发展造成巨大的挑战。最后，节目总结了独生子女政策的复杂性和争议性，指出该政策虽然已经废除，但其影响将持续数代，值得我们深刻反思。

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The One-Child Policy was initiated by the Communist Party of China in response to fears of overpopulation and resource depletion, despite warnings from critics like Liang Zhongtang about the potential catastrophic consequences.

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The story of China’s infamous One-Child Policy, the most ambitious (and catastrophic) social engineering project the modern world has ever seen.

SOURCES:

Fong, Mei. *One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment. *2016

Evans, Karin. The Lost Daughters of China. 2008

Johnson, Kay Ann. *China’s Hidden Children. *2016

Xinran, Message From an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love. 2012

Greenhalgh, Susan. Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China. 2008. 

Ren, Yuan. “How China's one-child policy overhauled the status and prospects of girls like me”. The Telegraph. Dec 2013. 

Clarke, Aileen. “See How The One-Child Policy Changed China”. National Geographic. Nov 2015. 

Chen, Shanshan. “Lost lives: the battle of China's invisible children to recover missed years”. Reuters. Dec 2016.

 

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