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Journalist Barbara Demick Traces Decades of Trauma From China’s One-Child Policy

2025/6/20
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Barbara Demick: 我在书中讲述了曾华一家在计划生育政策下的遭遇。他们因为生育了两个女儿后再次怀孕，面临着巨大的压力。计划生育机构不仅破坏了他们的房屋，还强行带走了他们的小女儿芳芳。这个政策的执行非常残酷，给无数家庭带来了无法弥补的创伤。许多家庭为了躲避计划生育，不得不将孩子藏起来，甚至将双胞胎分开抚养。尽管如此，计划生育官员仍然会千方百计地找到他们，强行带走孩子。这些被带走的孩子，很多都被送到了国外进行国际收养，而他们的亲生父母对此一无所知。国际收养市场在当时非常火爆，但背后却隐藏着无数家庭的痛苦和无奈。随着中国经济的发展，重男轻女的观念逐渐改变，但计划生育政策已经给中国社会带来了深远的影响，例如性别比例失衡等问题。现在，中国政府已经改变了政策，鼓励生育，但想要弥补过去造成的损失，仍然面临着巨大的挑战。作为记者，我希望通过我的报道，让更多人了解这段历史，反思计划生育政策对中国家庭和社会的影响。

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This chapter explores the harsh realities of the one-child policy in China, detailing the punishments faced by families who violated the rules, including the destruction of property, job losses, and the confiscation of children. The story of Zanhua, a mother of two girls who becomes pregnant with twins, highlights the fear and desperation faced by many families.
  • One-child policy's brutal enforcement
  • Punishments for violating the policy
  • Zanhua's story and the challenges faced by rural families

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Nearly a decade after the end of China’s one-child policy, families are still reeling from its traumas. In multiple cases, officials in China forcibly took children away from their families and placed them up for adoption, fulfilling a lucrative overseas demand for baby girls. In her new book “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,” journalist Barbara Demick tells the story of one girl named Fangfang, rechristened Esther, who was taken away from her twin sister and family and adopted by a white Christian couple in Texas. We talk to Demick about Fangfang’s story and how it illuminates the one-child policy’s lasting impacts on adoptees and their families in China and abroad.

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Barbara Demick, author, "Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins" - former Beijing Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times

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