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More Than One Child: Memoirs of an Illegal Daughter

Shen Yang
3.99/5 (65 ratings)
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In the late 1980s, Shen Yang was born during the fiercest years of China’s One-Child Policy. As the second daughter of the family, she was a massive liability--an excess child, a product of illegal birth.

From being raised by her grandparents in a remote village as soon as she was born, to being whisked away to her aunt’s home in a distant faraway city, Shen Yang’s existence was doomed to be shrouded in the utmost secrecy and silence. Armed with a false identity and ID card, she experienced years of neglect and humiliation from her aunt’s volatile family who saw her as yet another burden to bear. On top of it all, it seemed her own biological parents had forgotten about her.

In a riveting memoir, by turns witty and inspiring, Shen Yang bravely provides a vivid account of the family planning era in China, as she jots down her journey towards overcoming the limits of her upbringing and forging her own identity amidst the sorrows of her childhood. More than One Child is not only Shen Yang’s story; it is the untold story of the enormous, yet invisible community of excess-birth children and her way of saying goodbye to her childhood and an era.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
280 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Balestier Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1913891097
ISBN13:
9781913891091
kindle Asin:
B097QDBKHF

More Than One Child: Memoirs of an Illegal Daughter

Shen Yang
3.99/5 (65 ratings)
Read Download
In the late 1980s, Shen Yang was born during the fiercest years of China’s One-Child Policy. As the second daughter of the family, she was a massive liability--an excess child, a product of illegal birth.

From being raised by her grandparents in a remote village as soon as she was born, to being whisked away to her aunt’s home in a distant faraway city, Shen Yang’s existence was doomed to be shrouded in the utmost secrecy and silence. Armed with a false identity and ID card, she experienced years of neglect and humiliation from her aunt’s volatile family who saw her as yet another burden to bear. On top of it all, it seemed her own biological parents had forgotten about her.

In a riveting memoir, by turns witty and inspiring, Shen Yang bravely provides a vivid account of the family planning era in China, as she jots down her journey towards overcoming the limits of her upbringing and forging her own identity amidst the sorrows of her childhood. More than One Child is not only Shen Yang’s story; it is the untold story of the enormous, yet invisible community of excess-birth children and her way of saying goodbye to her childhood and an era.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
280 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Balestier Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1913891097
ISBN13:
9781913891091
kindle Asin:
B097QDBKHF

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