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Lyly So
Professor Holly Batty
English 113A
20 November 2014
Population Control in China through the One Child Policy

Introduction to Population Control in China

o China is the largest population in the world, taking 19% of the world with
1,367,940,000 people. To be able to start this big issue in the world, it started
off with The Postmortal a novel by Drew Magary that is a world of fiction
and dystopia. China has the largest population in the world and controlling a
large amount can be tough, therefore, the one child policy is a way that China
controls population growth.

What is One-Child Policy?

o One-Child Policy is a law created by China Former President Deng Xao Ping,
it is a law that any couple can only have one child, if not then will be face the
penalties and only because it is a way to help control the over population
growth in China.

Summary of Population Control in China through One-Child Policy?

o In China, there are large amount of population, and the laws are extremely
strict because China is a Communist country. In the early 1970s, former
president Deng Xao Ping created a law that only one child will be born for one
couple. (Fend) Within the first year, there were 6.1 millions couple that follow
the law and however receive a certificate for it. Soon later, there were an
increase of couple that follow the law and the increase was 4.4 millions.
However, since there is many couple that only gave birth to one child, there

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were a situation, most are baby girls and many Chinese family however only
want baby boys. In results, former president Deng Xao Ping added the law to
one child policy that couples who had baby girl as first born can get a second
child, however if its not a boy they must eliminate the child. Back then, there
werent any technology or medical care that would help switch gender, but
now they did and many couple transgender their unborn child.

How is transgender helps improve the management of Chinas

population control?

What happened from 1970s to 2015?

o The population control through the one child policy was rough in the
beginning, but however China managed to controls this law very smoothly.
Surprisingly, the population growth and birth rate for China is dropping over
the past years.

Will the population be growing in the next 10 years or will it be

dropping?

China One Child Policy and the changing family (Fend)

o An article shows the evidence of this situation, China One Child Policy and
the changing family (Fend), this article proven that one child policy still
going, but there are few changes in the near future. The power of the
government can control anything in China, however not all provinces in China
are manage. The reason is some provinces protest that what happen their child
is not a baby boy or passed away, what do they do? The government then
figures out a way to solve this situation, but not all Chinese citizens agree to
the solution. As a consequence, the people of China claim that they dont have
enough food or money to help raise another child. Therefore, there are

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medication program and other programs that help support this kind of solution
that the government orders.

Do you support one-child policy?

Chinas One-Child Policy rejects girls (Sister Namibia)

o A seven months pregnant Feng Jia Mei, has been brutally beaten and force to
either pay a fine for having a second child that is a girl or get an abortion.
When she wasnt able to pay the fine, and her husband was away, the officials
however force her into signing consent in a brutal way. Even though, the law
did claims that if a couple have a baby girl as a first born child then they are
allow to have second child, but unluckily for Feng she has a baby girl as
second unborn child.

If you were Feng, what will you do?

Do you support the idea of having only baby boy and not baby girl?

o This leads to The end of one-child policy in China

The end of one-child policy in China (Reproductive Health Matters)

o In addition, to be able to solve and make One-Child Policy less more
complicated. The current President Xi Jin Ping however still in discuss that
there will be a change in the one-child policy. In which is changing into twochild policy, because there were many protest that many women go through
many hard times and many other reasons such as abortion or being brutally
beaten and even death. In result, the law supposedly should start in 2015,
but there were some more contrast in the discussion because China is afraid of
economic and population growths.

Do you think there will be two-child policy law in 2015?

In relation to The Postmortal a novel by Drew Magary

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o The Truth About China (Magary, 225), where Chan (Johns Chinese
Foreign National) emailed John (Narrator of the novel/main character) about
what really happens in China. Why would you write on his arm? -They had
tattooed it. (Magary, 232) Apparently, China has ordered that every new born
child must have their arm or ankle tattoo with their birth date, therefore it is
easy to know what age they will be and be able to track down all the cure and
avoid it from spreading. When the policeman continued This policy was just
institution by the Department of Containment. (Magary, 232-233) shows the
power of the government in China and how they able to manage the
population. However, this is similar to the one-child policy in China because
the law is very strict and you must obey it, the way China managed the
country show that they are very high and powerful. Sadly, Chan and his wife
got arrested and theres nothing John can do. This show the power of China
and this relate to the article Chinas One-Child Policy rejects girls (Sister
Namibia) which shows the truth behind how China treats their citizens.

What do you think Chan should have done?

Self Opinion on One-Child Policy

o In my opinion, I find this way of population control is very smart, but at the
same time uncomfortable. The reason is, like in the article say what if the baby
passed away, they did solve the problem, but what about in the future where
the child passed away in accident or other, and the parents are elders what can
the government do. In the end, I would rather not have one-child policy as a
law, because it can turn out to be very brutal and many things can go wrong.

Conclusion

What is your opinion on one-child policy?

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o In able to control a large amount of population, China finds a way to help
reduce the population growth though one-child policy created since early
1970s by China Former President Deng Xao Ping. There are many articles or
news that talk about the law of one-child policy. However, all of these articles
show the counterargument that, even the people of China tries to defend the
law, there are others that is against the law. The reason is, many brutal and
deaths were happening therefore people protest against the law because they
want to defend for women. In similarity to The Postmortal Chan and his
wife or other women patients didnt like the idea of how they tattoo babies
arm. However, in the end the officials have more power than Chan, his wife
and other patients. Lastly, one-child policy is a very big bio political issue in
China and to me there should be a new change to it.

What do you think, should there be new law or should the law stay the
same?

Do you think there should be another solution to this issue?

Should one-child policy be removed or not?

Will one-child policy influence other countries?

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Word Cited

Fend, Xiao-Tian, Dudley L. Poston, Jr., and Xiao-Tao Wand. "China's one-child policy and
the changing family." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 45.1 (2014): 17+. Expanded
Academic ASAP. Web. 13 Nov. 2014.

"The end of the one-child policy in China?" Reproductive Health Matters May 2011:
202. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 20 Nov. 2014.

Chen, Ling, and Gang Zhang. "Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's
China." Nature 454.7203 (2008): 403+. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 20 Nov. 2014.

"China's one-child policy rejects girls." Sister Namibia 24.2 (2012): 30. Expanded Academic
ASAP. Web. 20 Nov. 2014.

Magary, Drew. The Postmortal: A Novel. New York: Penguin, 2011. Electronic.

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Name: Lyly
1. Specific topic related to biopolitics (1-10): 9
2. Clear, complex, controversial thesis (1-20): 10
3. Development and support (1-10): 6.5
4. Connection to The Postmortal (1-10): 8.5
5. Counterargument with response to naysayer (1-10): 4
6. Two scholarly sources properly cited (1-10): 8
7. Quote sandwiches that relate back to thesis (1-10): 5
8. Clear, logical organization of paragraphs (1-10): 8
9. Spelling/grammar/syntax (1-5): 3
10. Web design and multimedia: (1-5): 3
Total: 65
Comments: You are shy of 1300 words. Your thesis needs to be stated more explicitly.
China's one-child policy as a means of controlling the population is a fact. You need to have a
debatable thesis. Some of your ideas need to be explained more, such as the idea about
transgender children. I don't quite understand the point of the bullet point questions; it looks
like they were supposed to be links. Include in-text citations. Try to weave more quotes into
your writing.