by Mei Fong
gender imbalance and, 116
Hanbin (Chen) in, 103
home nursing services and, 145
hukou and, 80
human rights lawyers and, 81
marriage market in, 120
National Museum in, 38
population and, 3, 46
shidu parents and, 41
Songtang hospice in, 158
Tiantan Park in, 147
two children and, xii, 45, 59
United Nations Fund for Population Activities and, 77
in vitro fertilization clinic in, xvi
Yang Zhizhu in, 11
See also Olympics, 2008 Beijing
Being Mortal (Gawande), 149
BGI Shenzhen, 207
“Big Ball, Small Ball” theory, 35
Bird’s Nest Stadium, 33–34, 35, 96
birth control, 51, 68, 70, 73
birth-planning machinery, 66–67
birth quotas, 73
birth tourism, 6, 204
bonus systems, 75
Book of Songs, 108
Boston Globe, 181
Bowen, Zhao, 207
Bra Town, xi
Brave New World (Huxley), 65, 207, 209
bribery, 6, 75
bride buying, 16
bride prices. See caili (reverse dowry)
Brightman, Sarah, 36
Buccone (sex toy shop), 132
Bush, George W., 34
Bu Xiang, 106
C
caili (reverse dowry), 109, 111, 112, 113, 116–17
Caixin, 172, 184
Cai Yong, 10, 59
California, 198, 200, 202, 205, 211
Cambodia, 130
Cameron, Lisa, 91, 92
CaoCaoBa, 124
capitalism, 7, 161, 197
Care for Girls campaign, 133
CCTV (national broadcaster), 87, 193, 194
Center for Immigration Studies, 204
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 156–57
Central Adoption Agency, 173
Chang, Leslie, 6
Changning orphanage, 179
Changsha City, 206
Charter 08, 37
Chen, Danyan, 93
Chen, Jenova, 97
Cheng, Nancy, 132
Chengdu, 13, 44–45
Chengjie (son of Yang Libing and Chen Zhimei), 186, 187
Chen Guangcheng, 80–81
Chen Hong, 160
Chen Shoutian, 151
Chen Youhua, 210
Chen Zhimei, 185, 186, 189
Chenzhou City, 197
Che Yuelian (Moon Lotus), 68–70
Children of Men, The (James), 85
Children’s Hope, 172
Chin, Josh, 96
China Center for Adoption Affairs (CCA), 174
China/Chinese, distinction between, ix
China Ghosts (Gammage), 169, 189
China Railway Construction Group, 95–96
China Youth and Children Research Center, 90
Chinese Academy of Sciences, 196
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 114, 228n
Chinese Association for Population Studies, 46
Chinese Dream (television show), 106
Chinese University of Science and Technology, 53
Chiya, Lisa, 200
Chongqing, 24–25, 117
Christian Science Monitor, 60
Christmas cake, 126
civil service exams, 100
Clement, Charles, xv
clomiphene, 193
Cloud (video game), 98
Club of Rome, 50, 56
cluster leaders, 65–66
COBRA (health insurance program), 202
CoMensha, 173
Communism, 149, 150, 155, 197
Communist Party, 28, 53, 87, 126, 197, 208, 210
economic growth and, xiv
Gu Baochang and, 58
on limiting family size, x, 54
marriage anxiety and, 125
Olympics and, 4
on one-child policy, xiv, 10
on Tangshan earthquake, 12–13
on use of diaosi term, 96
women’s rights and, 102
Communist Party Central Committee, 49
computer games, 97–98, 104
confinement centers, 204–5
Confucius Institute, 127, 181
Confucius workshops. See woman morality courses/Confucius workshops
Connelly, Matthew, 56
contraception. See birth control
corruption, 73
crime, 115, 116
Crossing Bridge Noodles, 101
Ctrip (online travel site), 60
Cultural Revolution, 5, 38, 45, 48, 50, 51, 57, 63, 149
demography and, 46
filial piety and, 87
higher education in, 94
Little Emperors and, 92, 93
National College Entrance Exams reinstated after, 100
Olympics and, 4
social scientists in, xiii
Tangshan earthquake and, 13
cybernetics, 53
D
dancing grannies, 147
dandu policy, 59, 62–64, 165, 208
Danshen Julebu (Singles Club), 124
dating, 102, 120, 121–22, 124. See also matchmaking
death/afterlife, xvi, 161–64
demography, study of, 46
demystification of parenthood, 155
den Boer, Andrea, 114, 115
Deng (husband of Feng Jianmei), 61
Deng Xiaoping, 3, 48, 141
Deutsche Bank, 7
dialou, 134
diaosi, 96
Diaosi Man (online comedy show), 96
D.I.C.E. Awards, 99
Ding Wanlong, 18
Ding Xuan, 127–28
DiYi Consulting, 199, 203–4
DNA testing, 183–84, 186, 189
Document 7, 71
Dollar Store, xi
domestic violence, 115
Dongguan, 128, 130
Dongyue Miao, 162
Double II, 125
dowries, 109, 111, 112, 113. See also caili (reverse dowry)
Duan Yauneng, 171, 172
Du Benfeng, 104
Durihana Association, 130
Dying Rooms, The (documentary), 175
E
earthquake in Sichuan (2008), 1–6, 12–21, 24, 26, 28, 29, 32, 42
Ai Weiwei and, 35
Lin Hao and, 34
museums on, 38–41
pig that survived, 39
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
drop in, xii, xiii–xiv, 209
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
Lavely, William, xiii–xiv
lawyers, human rights, 81
Lee, Kim, 115
“Leftover Women” campaign, 125–26, 127
Legend of Sword and Fairy (video game), 98
Lehi, Utah, 175
Lehman Brothers, 37
Lei Yuanli, 197
Leshan Buddha, 26
Li, Uncle, 81–83
Liang, James, 60
Liang Zhongtang, 44–48, 52–53, 54, 58, 60, 63–64
Lian Si, 95
life expectancy, 46, 47, 141
Li Guangyuan, 52, 53, 54
Li Jiayi, 164–68
Li Keqiang, ix
Lim, Louisa, 41, 84
Limits to Growth, The (Club of Rome), 50
Lin’an, 88, 89
Ling (daughter of Chen Zhimei), 185–86
Lin Hao, 34
Li Shizhen, 153
Li Shunqiang, 24–25
Little Emperors, 85–86, 90–92, 93, 103–4, 139–40
Chen (Jenova) and, 97–99
dating/marriage for, 102–3, 104
Du Benfeng on family fragility and, 104–5
employment for, 95–96, 99–100
kubi and, 94–95
letters from only children, 93–94
Liu Ting and his mother, 86–89, 92, 93, 96, 105–7
test taking and, 100–102
liudong renkou (flowing population), 15
Liu Jishu, 14–18, 20–21, 22
Liu Shaokun, 29
Liu Ting, 86–89, 92, 93, 96, 105–7, 109, 228n
Liu Xiaobo, 37
Li Xiuzhen, 52
Li Xue (Snow), 11–12
Los Angeles Times, 172