Shejiantai destroyed by,
40
statistics on,
38–39
earthquake in Tangshan (1976),
4
,
12–13
Eberstadt, Nicholas,
56
economics,
xiii
,
xv
,
6
,
7–9
,
46
,
50
,
60
,
61
,
141
,
209
ascendance of China as global superpower,
37
China as world’s second largest economy,
141
income disparity,
95
Economist Intelligence Unit,
158
Edmunds, Alex,
124
Egan, Raymond B.,
190
enqing
,
155
Enshi,
59
environment,
xiv–xv
Three Gorges Project and,
57
Environmental Protection Committee (of State Council),
57
Ethiopia,
171
Evans, Karin,
188
exams/tests,
100–102
factories.
See
manufacturing
Families with Children from China (FCC),
181
family, defined,
125
family fragility,
104
family planning
policy before one-child policy,
xiii
rules and family formations,
125
family-planning commission,
65
,
133
family-planning officials,
37
,
62
,
66
,
71–72
surrogacy and,
195
visiting homes,
27
in Yicheng,
68–69
See also
population police
Family Planning Research Institute,
25
family ties, defined,
166
fangnu
,
117
Fang Wenxian,
133
Fan Jianchuan,
38
fertility
sterilization for lowering,
68
See also
fertility rates
fertility treatments,
27–28
,
190–93
,
205–6
designer baby techniques,
205–7
See also
surrogacy
filial piety,
86–88
,
103
,
107
,
154–55
,
161
Financial Times
,
124
Fishman, Ted,
140
Fong, Eternal Virtue,
212–13
Fong, Mei
background of,
5
birth of children of,
212–13
move to California,
97
Fong, Steadfast Virtue,
212–14
Fong, Vanessa,
129
Footloose
(movie),
175
Ford, Peter,
60
forgetting,
40–41
Fourteenth Amendment (of US constitution),
205
“4:2:1” phrase,
45
Francis, Diane,
xv
Fujian Province,
74
fuwa
(good luck dolls),
32
Gale, Julia Ming,
181
games.
See
computer games
Gansu Province,
208
Gao (family-planning official),
74–77
gay people,
203–4
GDP (gross domestic product),
ix
,
xi
,
48
,
141
,
157
gender imbalance,
xiii
,
xv
,
7
,
48
,
59
,
109–10
,
114–20
,
129
,
133
,
139
,
228n
bachelors finding it hard to find brides,
18
dating and,
124
marriage anxiety and,
125
See also
son preference
Ghost Month,
163–64
Gini coefficient,
95
“Going Home” tours,
181
Granny square dancing,
147
Great Famine,
92
Greenhalgh, Susan,
3
,
45
,
53
,
55
,
209
gross domestic product.
See
GDP (gross domestic product)
Guangdong Family Planning Commission,
194–95
Guangdong University of Technology,
131
guanggun
(bare branches),
110
,
116
,
135
.
See also
gender imbalance
Guanggun Jie (Singles’ Day),
125
Guangzhou,
130
,
132
,
151
,
177
,
178
,
194
,
195
Guangzhou’s Cultural Square,
87
Guizhou Province,
172
Guobao (husband of Li Jiayi),
166
Guo Jingjing,
34–35
Hague Adoption Convention,
174
Half the Sky (foundation),
172
,
232n
Hall, Heather,
170
Hampshire College,
174
Hanbin, Chen,
103–4
Han Chinese,
36
Handmaid’s Tale, The
(Atwood),
196
,
197
Han dynasty,
110
Hanzhong,
110
health-care reforms,
156
health-care systems,
7
health insurance.
See
medical insurance
Hebei,
128
Hebei Province Traditional Culture Research Association,
127
hei haizi
(black child),
11
higher education,
94
Hitchens, Christopher,
1
Holocaust Museum (Washington, DC),
40
home health care,
143–46
Hooters,
8
Hornby, Nick,
137
hospices,
xvi
,
138
,
157–60
,
164–68
household registration. See
hukous
/household registration
Hsu, Steve,
207
Hua Guofeng,
48
Huang Guangyu,
95
Huang Qi,
29
huaqiao
(overseas Chinese families),
5
Huimei (daughter of Tang Shuxiu),
1
,
14
,
16–20
,
22
,
30
Huis,
158
hukous
/household registration,
11
,
15
,
80
,
123
,
125
,
147
,
154
,
187
human rights lawyers,
81
Human Rights Watch,
175–76
Hunan Province,
78
,
171
,
172
,
173
,
179
,
197
Hut, Ina,
172–73
IKEA,
8–9
income disparity,
95
India,
50
,
51
,
109
,
114
,
140
,
199
,
210
Indonesia,
50
infanticide,
16
,
44
,
59
,
109
,
114
,
129
,
197
infertility rates,
191
INSEAD (business school),
142
intelligence,
206–7
in vitro fertilization (IVF),
xv–xvi
,
191
,
192
,
199
,
207
IUDs (intrauterine devices),
68
,
70
IVF.
See
in vitro fertilization (IVF)
James, P. D.,
85
Jeans City,
xi
Jiaen, Liu,
193
Jiamusi,
147
Jiang, Jennifer,
198–203
Jiangxi,
80
Jiayuan (matchmaking site),
120–21
,
122
jihua shengyu
(planned birth program),
6
Jinling Evening News
,
96
Jin Yu,
189
Jiuquan,
59
journalism, citizen,
13
Journey
(video game),
98–99
Kahn, Gus,
190
Kawaii Club,
131
Kellehear, Allan,
137
KFC,
9
Koolhaas, Rem,
30
Kroeber, Arthur,
xi
Krywokulsky, Amanda,
200–203
kubi
,
94–95
Kunming,
xvi
,
12
,
13
,
32
,
137
,
157
,
158
,
164
Kunming’s No. 3 People’s Hospital’s Section on Palliative Care,
138
,
165