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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

aging population and,
155
,
156–57
,
161

ascendance of China as global superpower,
37

China as world’s second largest economy,
141

China’s economic growth,
x–xii
,
87
,
92
,
94
,
140

of fertility treatments,
195–96
,
199
,
205–6

gender imbalance and,
116
,
117

income disparity,
95

population and,
48
,
56

Economist
,
xiv
,
115

Economist Intelligence Unit,
158

Edmunds, Alex,
124

Egan, Raymond B.,
190

Ehrlich, Paul,
49
,
108

elder abuse,
151–52
,
155

enqing
,
155

Enshi,
59

environment,
xiv–xv

pollution,
7
,
9
,
19
,
26
,
30
,
43
,
104
,
157
,
196

Three Gorges Project and,
57

Environmental Protection Committee (of State Council),
57

Ethiopia,
171

eugenics,
28
,
206
,
208

Evans, Karin,
188

exams/tests,
100–102

F

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

forced abortion and,
xv
,
167

seizing children for adoption,
12
,
172
,
184–89

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

Feng Jianmei,
60–61
,
62
,
72
,
196

Feng Wengguang,
130–31
,
132

fertility

sterilization for lowering,
68

See also
fertility rates

fertility rates,
xiii
,
56
,
58
,
59

fertility treatments,
27–28
,
190–93
,
205–6

clinics for,
193
,
199

designer baby techniques,
205–7

drugs for,
193
,
194

economics of,
195–96
,
199
,
205–6

multiple births,
6
,
192–95
,
198
,
205
,
212

See also
surrogacy

filial piety,
86–88
,
103
,
107
,
154–55
,
161

Financial Times
,
124

finding notices,
178
,
180

fireworks,
1
,
21
,
35

Fishman, Ted,
140

Fong, Andrew,
23
,
31
,
33

Fong, Eternal Virtue,
212–13

Fong, Mei

background of,
5

birth of children of,
212–13

family of,
133–36
,
140
,
213

fertility treatments for,
xv–xvi
,
190–93
,
211–12

move to California,
97

pregnancy/miscarriage of,
23
,
29
,
31–32
,
33
,
191

as
Wall Street Journal
correspondent,
xi–xii
,
5
,
23

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

Fu (god of Luck),
140–41
,
158

Fujian Province,
74

fuwa
(good luck dolls),
32

G

Gale, Julia Ming,
181

games.
See
computer games

Gammage, Jeff,
169
,
189

Gandhi, Indira,
50
,
77

Gansu Province,
208

Gao (family-planning official),
74–77

Gao, Nurse,
144–49
,
151

gaokao
,
100–101
,
102

Gawande, Atul,
149
,
150

gay people,
203–4

GDP (gross domestic product),
ix
,
xi
,
48
,
141
,
157

gendercide,
59
,
129

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

sex dolls and,
131
,
132

See also
son preference

genetic diseases,
207–8
,
212

Ghost Month,
163–64

Gini coefficient,
95

“Going Home” tours,
181

Granny square dancing,
147

Great Famine,
92

Great Leap Forward,
48
,
57
,
193

Greenhalgh, Susan,
3
,
45
,
53
,
55
,
209

gross domestic product.
See
GDP (gross domestic product)

Guangdong,
78
,
128

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

Gu Baochang,
10
,
58

Guizhou Province,
172

Guobao (husband of Li Jiayi),
166

Guo Jingjing,
34–35

H

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

Hangzhou,
47
,
79

Han Han,
85
,
102

Hanzhong,
110

Harvard University,
194
,
209

He, Vincent,
130
,
132

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

Henan,
71
,
128

higher education,
94

Hitchens, Christopher,
1

Hitdoll Inc.,
131
,
132

Holocaust Museum (Washington, DC),
40

home health care,
143–46

Hong Fincher, Leta,
120
,
126

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 Denggao,
44
,
67–68
,
69

Huang Guangyu,
95

Huangjiapu,
65
,
66
,
67
,
68

Huang Qi,
29

huaqiao
(overseas Chinese families),
5

Hudson, Valerie,
114
,
115

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

Huxley, Aldous,
65
,
207
,
209

Hu Yaobang,
45
,
48

hypergamy,
121
,
126

I

IKEA,
8–9

income disparity,
95

India,
50
,
51
,
109
,
114
,
140
,
199
,
210

Indonesia,
50

infanticide,
16
,
44
,
59
,
109
,
114
,
129
,
197

infant mortality,
8
,
10
,
47
,
152

infertility,
23
,
26
,
196–97

infertility rates,
191

INSEAD (business school),
142

intelligence,
206–7

in vitro fertilization (IVF),
xv–xvi
,
191
,
192
,
199
,
207

Iron Gourd Village,
16
,
18

IUDs (intrauterine devices),
68
,
70

IVF.
See
in vitro fertilization (IVF)

J

James, P. D.,
85

Japan,
90
,
101
,
115
,
126

Jeans City,
xi

Jiaen, Liu,
193

Jiaen Hospital,
192
,
193

Jiamusi,
147

Jiang, Jennifer,
198–203

Jiang, Tony,
198–204
,
206

Jiangsu,
59
,
73

Jiangxi,
80

Jiayuan (matchmaking site),
120–21
,
122

jihua shengyu
(planned birth program),
6

Jinling Evening News
,
96

Jin Yu,
189

Jiuquan,
59

Johnson, Kay Ann,
174
,
175

journalism, citizen,
13

Journey
(video game),
98–99

K

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

L

labor shortage,
xi–xii
,
xiii–xiv
,
48
,
208

“Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign (
wanxishao
),
xiii
,
10
,
47
,
48

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