Birth Control: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's 'One Child Nation'

China's one-child policy, which remained in effect for almost four decades, ravaged families and communities across the nation, leaving many distressed and remorseful. Employing archival material and firsthand footage, this Sundance award–winning documentary bravely interrogates the merits and mechanisms of the government-sanctioned scheme while also exploring its impact on the life of one of its directors, writes Debbie Zhou.

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birth control, forced abortion, population control, sterilisation, propaganda, Wang Peng, parenting, orphanage, human trafficking, Hooligan Sparrow, feminism, human rights, trauma