One Child (37 page)

Sen, Amartya,
129

sex dolls,
xv
,
130–32

sex education,
25

sex trafficking,
129
,
130

Shaanxi Province,
108–9
,
110
,
172

Shamian Island,
177

Shandong,
80
,
128

Shanghai,
45
,
117
,
144
,
194
,
196–99

Shanxi,
24
,
43
,
46
,
128

Shaoyang Orphanage,
184
,
185
,
186
,
187

shehui fuyangfei.
See
social compensation fees (
shehui fuyangfei
)

Shejiantai,
39
,
40

shengnu
(leftovers),
102
,
126

shidu
,
41
,
150–51

Shifang County,
3

Shock of Gray
(Fishman),
140

Shou (god of Longevity),
140–41

Shuang (researcher),
122
,
124

Shuanglin,
26

Shufen (mother of bridegroom),
111
,
112
,
113

Sichuan County,
3
,
22
,
24
,
25
,
27
,
28
,
33
,
71
,
111–12
.
See also
earthquake in Sichuan (2008)

Sina microblog service,
196

Singapore,
xiii
,
xiv
,
50
,
126
,
223n

Singles Clubs,
124

Smithsonian Institution,
97

Smolin, David,
174
,
180

social compensation fees (
shehui fuyangfei
),
78–81
,
151

Social Development Unit (SDU),
223n

Social History of Dying, A
(Kellehear),
137

social media,
61
,
103

social mobility,
95
,
101
,
206
,
208
,
209

social safety net,
xi
,
86
,
141

social sciences,
46

Sohu (Internet portal),
96

Song dynasty,
39
,
100

Song Jian,
48–49
,
51–55
,
57

Songtang hospice,
158

son preference,
5
,
48
,
69
,
70
,
71
,
109–10
,
132–36
,
195
,
197
.
See also
gender imbalance

Sony,
98–99

Soong May-ling,
127

Sopp, Carole,
188

Southern Metropolis Weekly
,
195

Southern Weekend
,
106

South Korea,
xiii
,
50
,
132
,
141
,
180–81
,
182

Soviet Union,
46

sports program,
28–29
,
34
.
See also
Olympics, 2008 Beijing

State Council,
57
,
126

statistics,
ix

sterilization,
24
,
25
,
67
,
68
,
70

“Stop at Two” campaign (Singapore),
50

Stuy, Brian,
169–70
,
175–80
,
183–84
,
186

Stuy, Jeannine,
175
,
177

Stuy, Lan,
170
,
177
,
178
,
183–84
,
186
,
189

Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights of the Committee on International Relations (US House of Representatives, 105th Cong.),
225n

subsidiarity principle,
174

suicide,
101–2
,
113
,
152

Sun Liping,
37

Sun Peidong,
121

Sun Simiao,
152–53

Sun Yunxiao,
90

surrogacy,
xv
,
194
,
195
,
197–204

Taiwan,
xiii
,
181
,
206

Taiyuan (Shanxi),
46

Tang dynasty,
100

Tangshan.
See
earthquake in Tangshan (1976)

Tang Shuxiu,
1–2
,
14–21
,
22

“Tank Man,”
84

Tan Zuoren,
29

Teng De’En,
147
,
151

tests/exams,
100–102

test-tube babies,
191

Thailand,
xiii
,
199

This Generation
(Han Han),
85

Thousand Years of Good Prayers, A
(Yiun Li),
22

Three Gorges Project,
57

Three Gorges Project Construction Committee,
57

thumbnails,
88

Tiananmen Square,
11–12
,
41
,
73
,
84

Tianjin,
117

Tian Qingeng,
117–20

Tiantan Park,
147

Tian Xueyuan,
52

Tibet,
71

tofu schools,
20

Tong, Scott,
172

Tonight’s the Night
(television show),
106

Too Many People in China?
(Liang, James),
60

transgender person,
106–7
,
228n

Tsinghua University,
37
,
62
,
97

24
Paragons of Filial Piety
,
86–87

twins.
See
multiple births

two children,
xii
,
11
,
24

“Two’s Too Much” campaign (South Korea),
50

Ukraine,
199

Underpants Tower,
30–31

UNESCO World Heritage Site,
134

Unicharm,
62–63

United Nations,
49–50

United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA),
49–50
,
77

United Nations General Committee,
46

United Nations Population Awards,
77

United Nations Population Fund,
49–50
,
76

United States

University of California–Irvine,
58

University of Michigan,
207

University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill,
59

University of Southern California (USC),
90
,
98
,
99–100

University of Washington,
xiii

US State Department,
129

Vanke (real estate company),
116–17

vasectomies

video games.
See
computer games

Vietnam,
130

village-level offices,
66

violence,
114–15

Wall Street,
37

Wall Street Journal
,
xi
,
5
,
21
,
96
,
205

Walmart,
88

Wang, Ninie,
141–42
,
144

Wang Feng,
10
,
57
,
58

Wang Qishan,
23

wanxishao.
See
“Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign (
wanxishao
)

Washington Post
,
115
,
209

wawa
(children in Sichuan),
22–23

Weather Modification Bureau,
30
,
34

Weibo (Twitter-like service),
13

Wei Shang-Jin,
116

wet markets,
88–89

We Will Be All Right
(Liu Ting),
106

White Swan Hotel,
177

Whiting, Richard A.,
190

Who Will Marry My Daughter?
(Sun Peidong),
121

Williams, Tennessee,
104

Wilson-Miller, Wendie,
203
,
205
,
206

woman morality courses/Confucius workshops,
127–28
,
130

women’s rights,
102
,
115
,
125
,
126
,
129

World Children,
172–73

World Health Organization,
197

Wumart,
88

Wu Youshui,
78–81

xiang banfa
(find a solution),
6

Xian Jiao Tong University,
52

Xiao Hebi,
152–56

Xiao Hong,
195

xiao huangdi
(Little Emperors).
See
Little Emperors

xiao shun
(filial piety).
See
filial piety

Xiheshui,
68

Xi Jinping,
127
,
128
,
158

Xinhua (news agency),
ix
,
3
,
13
,
74

Xinran Xue,
8

Xinyue (New Moon),
24
,
27
,
42

Xuankou Middle School,
40

Yang Libing,
185–87
,
189

Yangtze River,
57

Yang Zhizhu,
11

Yan Yunxiang,
154–55

Yao Ming,
34
,
35

Yew, Lee Kuan,
126

yibao
(China’s Medicare),
154
,
156
,
165–66

Yicheng,
43–44
,
58–59
,
60
,
65
,
66
,
68
,
73

yipiaofoujue
(one-vote veto),
73
,
82

yitai zhengce
(one-child policy),
6

Yiyun Li,
21

Yi Zhang,
114

Yizhou,
102

Yonghe Town,
74
,
75

Yuan Mingsan,
187–88

Yu Jingyuan,
52
,
55

Yunhoun Lou tower (The Tower of the Illusory Cloud),
134–35

Yunnan Province,
71
,
101
,
194

Yuyuantan Park,
120

zhai nan
(residence male),
119

Zhang, Melody,
172

Zhang Erli,
58
,
62
,
72

Zhang Hongbing,
87

Zhang Qingzhou,
13

Zhang Xiaobo,
116

Zhang Yimou,
36
,
37

Zhang Zhefang,
151–52

Zhao Zhiyang,
45
,
65
,
73

Zhejiang TV,
106

Zhejiang University,
115
,
133

zhiluweima
(pointing at a deer and calling it a horse),
10

Zhong, Mei,
93
,
94

Zhong Bifeng,
197

Zhou Pin,
111–12
,
113–14

Zhu, Mrs.,
24
,
26
,
27
,
28

Zhu Jianming,
24–28
,
42

Zhu Jianqiang (Tough Pig),
39

Zili Village,
133–36

zuoyuezi
(sitting the month),
204–5