![]() ![]() It just wasn't - you know, there are so many social changes that happened in the '70s and '80s and '90s. It's sort of like trying to plan an itinerary, a tour itinerary, on the assumption that people still travel by steamship, you know? And it didn't take into account all these social changes that would happen. And so they had the resources and the tools and the political capital to bring forth these big ideas. The only kind of branch of higher learning were - they were protected - were the military scientists. A lot of social scientists, economists had all been devalued as a result. How did this happen?įONG: Well, this all came about in the '60s and '70s, and this was post-Cultural Revolution. SIEGEL: As you write, astonishingly, the one-child policy was the brainchild of rocket scientists, not of public health experts or demographers, but rocket scientists. It's called "One Child," and she joins us now. ![]() Mei Fong wrote about the one-child policy as The Wall Street Journal's China correspondent, and she's now written a book about it that's about to be published. ![]()
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