I was a result from the one child policy. As far as I know I was left on the street and I don’t even know how I got to an orphanage but I did. I watched this and I cried. I know 10 other girls who were adopted in the same group as me from Hubei and we still keep in touch. We were adopted in 2002. We are all gonna be 19 in 2020. I wanna find my birth parents but it’s gonna be slim to none.
im kind of curious why you would want to meet your parents who abandoned you ? some might say they had to but if they just preferred a male child, they absolutely had a choice
@Ayan Kumar Reservation compare with one child policy? No doubt that you are a upper caste bhakth. First ask to Modi to stop begging vote by using his lower class status.
This is exactly what people in India are failing to realise. Even without a child policy we have selective female deaths...and it will get only worse once such policy comes into affect in India
In 2011, my wife and I adopted twin, 15 month old girls from China. It was the single greatest thing that I will ever do in my entire life. I could cure cancer and it would not be a better. My children are brilliant, smart, respectful and above all - happy. Very happy. This movie is very personal and very disturbing to me. As someone who lived in China for approximately 5 weeks, I know first-hand about what this moves shows. Trust me, it is 100% accurate.
I do appreciate your great love to your little girls. But I have to say that you might need to spend more time in China until you really know something.
谢谢你的对孩子的支持和帮助，我也为我国家的政策而感到失望😞这个政策造成了太多的悲剧 Thanks for your support and help at the same time I feel disappointed to my country’s one child policy, these tragedies has created by these law
Just watched this documentary, it really shock me. I am myself born under the one-chid policy, however, lucky enough to have a brother who is one year younger. The documentary matches a lot from stories that I have heard from my parents and grandparents. My mum was forced to be sterilized right after giving birth my brother. My family also paid an expensive fine for having my brother. However, I didn't know that we are already the lucky ones until I watched this documentary. As a girl in the family, growing up, I'm always upset that my parents were giving more attentions to my brother only because he is a boy. And my grandma's name is "bangdi" which means "bring a brother". All of these are accurately captured in this documentary.
One of my best friends and colleague, was that second child. His father was an engineer and had to take the decision to escape to Latin America with his first daughter and his wife pregnant with my friend. Fortunately, his mother could cope with the long travel while pregnant and they were able to settle and my buddy was born here and not in mainland China. Now he is a great entrepreneur and a family man, with 2 kids as well. I’m really grateful that him and his family could escape this terrible fate
Watching this trailer has brought me to tears. I was born in China in the late 90’s. And was abandon at a police station and sent to an orphanage. According to my parents, when they adopted me, I wasn’t in the greatest health, physically and mentally. In which I have struggled with both growing up. I ended up being adopted with 13 other girls from the same orphanage in 2000 and we have kept touch with each other over the years. As I have gotten older I have done a lot of own searching. I have been going through my own papers to see what I can find. And found a few interesting things about where I am actually from. But nothing about my birth family. Which makes me sad because I know I have family there. And who knows they might be trying to find their lost daughter but nobody would ever know. Finding them will be hard because there is a lot people in China but I won’t stop searching. The one thing is that I don’t hold any resentment towards them because they made the choice to save me. If they didn’t I wouldn’t be here and have the life I have today.
Hi @Alexia , I’m so sorry I just your comment and finally replying (5 months later). I was abandoned in Taunfeng County. I believe it’s in Huanggang City, Hubei Province. It’s located near Wuhan. Where my adoption took place.
i hope you still embrace your heritage and culture regardless you found your parents or not. 你会看得懂中文吗？all the best to you and hope u guys crossed path.
Back in 1997, I met a man on a train who said he choke his just-born second kid to death in his bare hand, due to the One Child Policy. At that time I was so shocked not only what he did, but the quiet and accustomed face given by the other dozen audiences surrounding him. BTW I am Chinese and the only kid of my parents. At that time, my parent would both lose their job if they dare to give birth to more than one kid. I should have had a sister, who was aborted, 30 years ago.
Im so sorry for your loss and ft. Or your hsrdship not being able to love your sister..How very sad. Its not your fault of course but a big mistas ke of China..
I wept just watching the trailer. My mom climbed over a low wall on the rooftop to hide and kept me alive. "The love for the country equals to the love of the party". You raise up one of the most dangerous (to the party) questions. I admire your courage and commitment. May GOD bless you.
This film broke my heart into a million pieces. And for that family that tried to hide and basically had to pay ransom money. The government will never admit they were wrong about this and that is a betrayal of your own people.
The CPC has no true love for the Chinese people. Death has always plaid an important role in their policies. One of the reasons they are able to maintain a firm grip on power.
I was born in 1997 and my family is really different from others because I have 2 older sisters. Every my classmates were shocked when they knew this fact because it was already rare to have two children in a family, it's almost impossible to have three. As far as I know, there was 1 or 2 times per year that someone from the Family I Office would check every family in the town and if this family got a second kid, they fined a lot and even took away the furnitures as punishment. So I used to hide at my home or my relatives' house to prevent from being caught. But later, it's not that serious and we three grow up normally and healthy.
I watched this yesterday and had tears in my eyes when they showed the FULL babies in yellow bags labeled "waste." So many were aborted when they basically were full term.. Its heartbreaking. This really was eye opening.
Despite all the heart wrenching stories, Chinese government's decision was rational and need of the hour. In Asian cultures specially India and China, marriages and breeding children are extremely important irrelevant of your economic situation and living conditions. Even if you are a begger even then you are going to marry another begger and breed 10 children who would assist you in your begging profession. Advancement in medical science and decrease in mortality rate, gave rise to this situation. Within 70 years, people in India and China produced 1 billion people each.
this brings back memories, I just finish watching the full film, and it really brings back memories and is true it was very unfair for female babies especially, i remember in my orphanage we had so many girls and only the prettiest one got more food, better clothing, and more attention, very unfair and sad how after so many years i still remember when i was 4 and my mom had to left me in a foster house and then she never came back, i wonder for so many years in my life why she didnt want me, for many years i thought she just didn't care about me because i wasn't pretty or because i wasn't smart, growing up i never thought the one-child policy was bad or strange i never connect both me being abandon and the one-child policy until later many years after i found my mother and told me the truth.
What is prosperity when people live in such gloom... Nehru ji rightly said india is a happily poor... I believe everyone will be rather happily poor than being rich and totally sad
@rahul kumar Food matters... You're right... But the hunger is due to mismanagement of government and not because of depletion of food... I don't think I've witnessed a shortage of growth in rice wheat and basics crops n India... There are farmers selling their commodities at a cheaper price ... I never saw anywhere in the market a shopkeeper saying regularly for 5-6 years that there's a shortage of supply... But he says that he wants more and more customers.. So I think it's the mismanagement by ruling leaders which is blamed on people.. And what about those killings in the womb of women... If a person has 1 child girl... And second he wants boy..?? What he will do .. China has taken back is policy of 2 child btw because they know in future they'll be lacking manufacturing crisis like Europe and America... Kudos to India if they want to do this and destri their future
Wow this documentary made me cry. Aborting full term fetuses, force sterilizations, the lady repenting her sins by helping infertile couples, the artist's photos of dead babies in medical waste trash bags, and the pictures of abandoned babies brought me to tears. Had me feeling all types of ways.
Same thing happened in India ,in the name of dowery , sati,girl child abortion,and many North Indian communities killed their own new born girl child for the sake of pride only difference is that no one knew any recognized movie or documentary about that...
Overpopulation is dangerous. However I don't appreciate the way Chinese govt handled it by introducing such atrocious policies. They could have educated people to plan families and take contraception like in India. My heart goes out to all the Chinese parents who went through this trauma
Trying to be objective, twins within one-time birth don't against the one-child policy at the time in China. Feeling slightly confused about the details of the girl saying she has an older twin sister living (hypothetically being adopted and raised?) in US? The existence of this documentary is beyond breath-taking, it files the history, the specific history happened under specific circumstance. Pray for people who went through the trauma.
@@emmaqiuHmm, I was born in China at the time, going to school twin classmates so I knew it wasn't against the policy, well, there could be details that none of us outsiders know. Hope she could reunion with her sister one day.
There’s a possible reason that the family could not raise both of them. Especially if they are girls, possible thought “if we sent this girl away we could have another boy” some people did give births to two kids in relatively short period of time and register them as twins to be legal. No matter what the situation was, it is heartbreaking to see the heartbreaking outcomes
I was born and raised in China in 2001. As far as I know twins are fine and it's not against the policy. (My hypothesis is that the twins who got separated happened in some tire 3 cities where the government officials practice abuse of power)
In rural aera. When your first child is girl, you are allowed to have a second child. But if you have 2 daughters(including twins), you can't have a third child.
it's still prevalent today. i used to teach chinese people who would complain about problems in china and then when i ask them "so do you plan to maybe move to another country in the future??" they would usually say "no because china is the best country" or something along those lines. it's actually sad to witness. they know there are issues but are either too scared or are simply havent honed their critical thinking skills enough to recognize the root of these problems, which is more often than not, their own government.
Brilliant documentary. I saw it at The Nantucket Film Festival. It’s incredibly disturbing how vile the CPC is and how death always plays an important role in their policies.
Such a shocking and eye opening documentary. The most amazing point for me is that how many people in China just simply adopt “policies” and justify their actions by “policies”. Previously, based on my interests, I tried to talk with different Chinese people and indirectly infer their thoughts about their government (mostly educated ones, some of them highly educated). Most of them are not aware of their history, the extent the government control, and the need for a more-open society. I understand that they are happy with economic developments that happened in China in the last three decades and feel a national pride. But to think your country to be equal to a party, its leadership, and its policies is something that is not understandable for me.
For those disappointed that this didn't make an Oscar nom, please check out Sister (妹妹), which got the animated short nomination today. Relevant with a very different artistic lens to portraying this issue.
My mom brought it up, thinking that I could’ve had parents who loved me and that I could’ve been forcefully taken from them hurts me, this is my heritage. But I’d be nothing without my family now
Most environmentalist praises China for its one child police. Even my professor is who use to teach at Harvard commends its effort. There was a period where the western government were forcing contraception policies upon developing nations ( India ) in exchange for aids. China didn’t come up with this policy on its own which is ironic. Look into your own history there are often many sides. It is easier to blame one instead of understanding the situation. My own family had to abort due to this policy. Even with its policy lifted now lost Chinese only want one child because it is simply too expensive to raise more than one.
The film not only demonizes the one-child policy, but also beautifies traffickers, describing the phenomenon of female infanticide and abandonment of female infants in rural areas as something that has to be done under the pressure of the policy, but also pulls a family of farmers who have eight children on a minimum living allowance to pretend pity. The director has also been guiding the interviewees to speak black Chinese. I really trembled in the cinema. The audience was basically foreigners. After watching this film, I really understand why European and American society has such a big prejudice against China.
The only other trailer that ever made me cry was "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" when Tom Hanks/Mr Rogers says " you can play all the lowest keys on the piano..BOOOOOOOOOM". And that's because it was so beautiful. But this one made me cry because its really tragic and sad.
I come from north china, and live in city, my place is not terribly like it. I think most happened in village. And Chinese old cultures ‘ boy can follow family name; and Prosperity of descendants, that means the family is strong.’ So The average family has five children, or more. I don’t agree director said ‘ how much can a child eat? That’s not just one family child, , that’s whole china family, one family have 5 children, then every child will have another 5 children, China's population will be more and more. When a mother gives birth in a hospital , you want to protect mom life first ? Or child first ? Actually even if Even if all children can be born. Many children will still die because of insufficient supplies. If no the policy, now the news will be that A large influx of Chinese refugees into various countries. ‘ The policy idea is good, just’ one child ‘is too less, at least ‘two children’ will be better. The government should increase the supervision of subordinates.
this documentary is very good. it doesnt boil it all down to one agenda, it actually explores all perspectives of those who carried out the policy's orders and those who were victimized by those orders. forced sterilizations, forced killings of fetuses, finding dead babies under bridges. the ethics of such acts being done out of nationalistic and collective interest fall too far between, "its a population war" vs "i had an individual choice". no, the choice was automatically politicized because the law forbid it. the social and cultural norms only served to undermine the absence of choice even further, and boys were favored because families thought it was the only way to save their history and perserve their legacy. still, although this slightly changes my previous position about the policy, i wish they would at least consider the consequences. some of the ex officials sounded quite unapologetic, putting the ethics of their individual actions aside and using the same old propaganda filled excuses of "national pride and preservation". but then again, their entire lifes worth integrity and morality was basically being destroyed by the ccp, although they were praised endlessly, lots of people probably look at them with horror and disgust.
Saw this in Chicago. SPOILER ALERT. Liked it for the most part. One thing that was strange was the people interviewed knew this was a law and still had a baby. And they knew the entire government would go after them. I found that being dumb and inviting suffering to your life. Also they thought it bad that orphanages would adopt out babies to western families. But in the same breath discuss how baby girls would be left on the street to die full of mosquito in a few days. Adoption seems better than death but I guess not to them. Finally I found it interesting when they were able to track down these adopted children in the west and they DIDN"T want to talk to them. The Chinese families were hurt by this. I saw nothing wrong with this. You're a girl that almost died and someone said they wanted you in the west. It might take time to look back - if ever. Overall it was interesting but nothing major revealed. I guess you can say they took the microscopic view vs the global / national view in this movie.
Okay... I've known the two sides of this story for quite a while now. It was inhumane to deprive people of their reproductive rights and in so many places this policy had ripped families apart and even resulted in infanticides. That said, as a girl hailing from a southeastern Chinese city I'd say a generation of young females were given the chance to live a totally different life. Families that would've practiced the century-old favoritism towards sons had to accept they got a daughter, forced to reexamine their attitudes. Those only-daughters were afforded education and career opportunities beyond expectations. Btw just speaking from my experiences at uni, at least half of Chinese didn't limit themselves to one child under the policy. Public servants and people from a certain handful of provinces were more than likely to be held against this policy.
BrothersandSisters well right now this policy is gone. Maybe we can moving forward and unite to against wars? So there is no gov killing our brothers and sisters in Middle East?
@@susiej5286 Hi, I understand that you are closely interested in the one-child policy. can i just ask one question for my research paper :) can you help me?
@xpion22 dragzuhan True..But education doesn't mean open minded mentality.. Education in our country means degree..that also needs to be changed. Many EDUCATED people still think backwards.
This film is just amazing i felt something out of this world at the same time it's sad to see something like this but it's amazing how it got filmed 💓💓💓
When the documentary will be uploaded in some website to see it? I've searched for it, but in the only webpages when you can see it you have to give your credit number. I'm Spanish and I'm wondering if I could see it somewhere with spanish subtitles, even if maybe it's not going to happen.
I was the only girl from this generation, my mom was forced to abortion of my little brother in 5 month. She told me , they even show her the little dead body of my brother to her after the abortion, it was a tragedy. Now we left China and living in United States, I can only imagine if my little brother could be here with us , it kills me to see this , what a devil
Yeah? what would you have done? Let almost 2 billion people suffer and die everyday? I’m sure you have no idea what it’s like starve. You cannot speak unless you were in their shoes
The world needs this policy. We have exhausted the planets resources, but hey at least our rights to have children haven't been taken away.....that's sarcasm btw
Ryno most people? You mean women? So women should be mutilated, have their babies take from them, and forced to have more children so that they can satisfy the patriarch? Why don’t you STFU!
@@izzyhezz he never said women I am a woman myself Nd i believe having a single child is a decision that should be taken by people on their own When humans do not understand the disaster of overpopulation someone has to use force Honestly i do not blame the chinese govt I blame the population for wanting a male over a female child I blame the patriarch society(with you on this!) I blame people for killing their own children And mutilation is a very strong for medical guided tubectomy
Released on January 26th 2019, One Child Nation is an fascinating American documentary about the effects of the One Child Policy in China. It was directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang with interviews from various members of Wang’s family (her uncle, aunt, mother, grandfather and brother), ex-human traffickers, former village chiefs, midwives, state officials, and artist (Peng Wang, Yueneng Duan, Tunde Wang, Jiaoming Pang, Xianwen Liu, Huaru Yuan, Shuquin Jiang, Brian Stuy, Longlan Stuy and Shuangjie Zeng). Wang dives deep into Chinese society to shockingly discover the impacts of the policy. She learns about the common child infanticide of the time, the human trafficing as well as the forced abortions and sterilizations. As well as how the current Chinese people are affected by their trauma. I thought the documentary was very well done. Wang showed the common opinions and general events in China at the time, as well as more specific stories of those affected. For example, the mechanics of the One Child Policy were explained. She showed how women were forced to be sterilized and their possessions and houses were destroyed, which was done by family planners and government officials. Wang introduced the Chinese concepts of the “population war”, as the country fought economic hardships and felt the need to reduce its starving population. Furthermore, we saw the cultural phenomenon of how boys were more valued than girls, who were more often abandoned. She also explained the “International Adoption Program” and the matchmakers, how abandoned babies were trafficked and almost 130,000 were adopted internationally. In addition to this, Wang showed us specific stories, examples and perspectives to help us truly resonate with the events. She spoke to a rural midwife who shared her experiences with forced abortions and sterilizations. The midwife had traveled from town to town where they had taken women and made them abort. She remembered how the pregnant women had screamed and tried to run away. However, the midwife learned to recognize the pain she caused. Trying to make amends, she now helps hopeful couples have children. Wang also showed the story of how one twin from a poor rural family had her sister taken away from her under the One Child Policy. This really allowed the watcher to understand the trauma and pain the policy put these families through. However, the documentary did feel a little biased as Wang didn’t really try to understand why some Chinese families were supportive of the policy. And the policy makers reasoned for implementing the policy in the first place. In the end of the documentary, Wang showed us how, across all interviews, there was a collective sense of hopelessness and resolve by the Chinese people toward the policy. They often felt they “had no choice”. From poor families to midwives to state officials, they all shared this feeling. Finally she showed how China is currently encouraging people to have more children as a result of there now not being enough children. I thought this documentary was very well done with lots of interviews and perspectives. I like how Wang explained the policy and situation in general before diving into specific, more intimate stories (like that of the midwife and the twin). In this way, I was able to really understand and absorb the extent of the impacts of the policy (both generally and intimately). My one critique would be to hear more of the rationale behind the support of the policy. I felt like we heard that some people liked the policy, but we didn’t really get to hear in depth why. However, I do understand that Wang’s goal was to shed light on the trauma of the policy and in that I think she did a good job.
Despite all the heart wrenching stories, Chinese government's decision was rational and need of the hour. In Asian cultures specially India and China, marriages and breeding children are extremely important irrelevant of your economic situation and living conditions. Even if you are a begger even then you are going to marry another begger and breed 10 children who would assist you in your begging profession. Advancement in medical science and decrease in mortality rate, gave rise to this situation. Within 70 years, people in India and China produced 1 billion people each.
Wanting to procreate is a natural biological thing. Also the reason for ppl starving which led to China's 1 child policy & also for India's 2 child policy in the 80s was bcoz of their foolish decision to stick to Socialism.
@@nuzlockstarter5345 Wanting to procreate exists but societal pressure and cultural conditioning leads to overbreeding despite limitation of resources around them.
Well. As a Chinese who's born and raised in China myself. 70% of this film is true imo. The one child policy destroyed many people's family and hope afterall. However, in reality most of people in smaller cities and rural areas will just pay a one time tax if they had 2 or more children (non-twins). The people in the city will just straight up do the abortion when they have second child by accident. The 70s-90s was a very dark time for Chinese people. But the policy has been slowly fading away since 2000. Matter of fact, now China is even encouraging people to have a second child, especially those who has no siblings. I guess the government realized there's a huge population drop in my generation which is causing shortage of labour already.
We want it through proper education among the masses, improvement in living conditions. else people will abandon female children, just like they did in china
@@mariakhan6090 how you are going to improve the conditions without controlling the population? When you are going to give proper education? People are enough educated in this regard and no sane person will oppose population control bill. If someone is against population control Bill means, either they are idiots or prejudice people.
@@mariakhan6090 they would definitely add another half a billion, by the time you are going to give education. So, stringent actions are necessary to control population.
@@mariakhan6090 education Don't change Múslims. We need police. But Múslims hate police they always feel discrimination in India poor fellows go to Pakistan. We need one or 2 child policy to all people who are leaving in India. We also need Strict policy to not let people abandoning girl child wether he is a Muslim or Hindu.
I was born in 90s under the one child policy and I’m a girl. I’d admit the policy did violate human rights to some point but that was the best way to control overpopulation because of the resource shortages and economic issues during that time. What are you expecting if China didn’t do it? Over 5 billion population or even more now? Then there would be another ironic movie coming out and sneering at the population? I know it feels sad to see families abort baby girls but that was not the problem of the single child policy and it didn’t happen everywhere in China. I was born in a small city but ppl didn’t have any judgements on either you had a boy or a girl at that time not mention nowadays. For the families like in the movie, what if they have baby boys, are they still gonna abandon them? This movie was too biased and limited bc it only focused on the remote areas in China where ppl with lower income, not much educational background, and paid less attention to birth control. Why would you give birth to another child if you don’t have enough money to support the family already? That’s irresponsible! It’s gonna make the life even worse.
Ms. Lan, I understand your feelings but as many have commented, it was not only a cruel policy but a very shortsighted one. Who are those privileged men supposed to marry now that so many Chinese girl babies were tossed away? Human life is not disposable. The Govt.could have made more humane policies- it would have cost more money but was possible. So what price do you place on human life?
@@pamelag7553 Even if there was no one child policy, the baby girls would still be tossed away in those rural remote villages of China. If you are not a Chinese and have not grown up in China, then you do not know the situation, the tradition, the culture. One Child Policy, strangely, it actually gave girls a equal status in a culture that favorite boys.
You're only saying this bc you're one of the lucky baby girls that their family chose to keep. I doubt you'd even be alive to write this comment if you were abandoned and left to die or human trafficked. Its so easy to side and agree with a policy when we get the better end of the deal🙄
Parps like what Xiaoying said above, the single child policy was not the main reason why baby girls were tossed away. It’s the prejudices against girls we should blamed for. And I believe it’s getting better now in those remote areas. FYI, China is not the only country that has this problem. Again, you can’t truly put yourself in our shoes bc you didn’t grow up in China and you don’t know the culture and ppl but I appreciate your point. :)
I agree, you people cannot speak unless you were there in the governments shoes. What would you have done? I’d give anything to meet my birth parents but I believe China did us all a favor.
Good luck with that. There is no way that the Liberal establishment would allow that. My wife have 5 children. Two girls adopted from China. It makes me very sad to think that my precious girls and two of my joys and them came to us because of such government action. What a shame. I am taking my wire and girls to see this movie.
@@stant5741 what about this makes you think left leaning people would dislike it? The only thing that could stop this from getting a nomination, if it's as good as it looks, would be the fact that it's coming from a streaming service (though I wouldn't be surprised if it's hitting theaters first to satisfy eligibility requirements)
The documentary was about the one-child policy and its effect on the population of China. The director, producer, and narrator Nanfu interviewed Chinese citizens from all walks of life. She interviewed parents who had to give up or abandon their children, including her aunt and uncle. She also interviewed her mother, who was one of the few who was allowed to have two children. Nanfu also interviewed from the other perspective, talking with family planners and doctors who aborted children, sometimes as late as 9 months, and sterilized them. Nanfu also got multiple perspectives, she talked to one family planner who did not regret her actions, and one mid-wife who regretted her actions so much that she no longer aborts and delivers baby\ies, but instead now does fertility treatments for cheap to atone for her sins. This contrast was interesting to me because it was two people in very similar situations who felt very differently afterward. It seemed quite strange to me, that someone wouldn’t feel guilty, or even possibly could chase a woman and forcibly sterilize them and cause them to induce. Nanfu though, expertly explained the culture at the time and how the government’s propaganda caused people to wholeheartedly believe in the one-child policy. Despite having different reactions to their actions, both women felt they did not have a choice in their actions. Interestingly, an overarching theme in all of Nanfu’s interviews is that the people felt like they didn’t have any choice in their actions, whether they regretted it or not. Another interesting factor the documentary brought up was how the one-child policy was monetized. The one child policy had a horrible effect on all children, but a disproportionate effect on girls. Families wanted sons to carry on the last name and legacy, so families would abandon their daughters so they could have another child which could potentially be a son. This allowed the one child policy to be monetized. Orphanages would hire people, (trash collectors, midwives, etc) people who roamed around a lot and could easily pick up abandoned babies, and pay them money (around 200 dollars) if they brought a baby to the orphanage. The orphanages would then put the babies up for international adoption, which brought in a lot of money. This showed me how corrupt the government was, by not only forcing these horrible situations but also profiting on it. They also blamed it on citizens instead of taking responsibility for baby trafficking. For example, Doan and his family for baby trafficking even though they were getting paid by the orphanage to do so. I like how Nanfu brought up all these different aspects of the one child policy. She didn’t just focus on one thing, but instead talked about why babies were abandoned, the propaganda from the government, journalism on the one-child policy, midwives and councilmen’s opinions, and what happened to the babies after they were abandoned or adopted. The documentary, while focusing on the horrors of the one child policy, also brings to light the good people are trying to do as well. For example, the couple Brian and Long Lan formed an organization that works on matching babies who were internationally adopted by orphanages with their birth families.
Hmmm.... Here mentioned if you have twins, the government would force you to give away one of your kids... I’m pretty sure it’s not true! If a family give away one of the twin girls, it’s more likely because the family wants a boy but has difficulties to raise 3 kids. Since the movie has this wrong, I highly doubt if the rest of the movie is objective and based on the truths...
Local governments tended to interpret the policy differently from one another there was not a hard and fast rule. But their ultimate objective is to decrease the total number of births. In some places even childless couples were not allowed to give birth. Look up the Childless Hundred Days campaign in Shandong.
I heard it's available to watch this coming Friday. It's an Amazon film, so I don't know if it'll be in theaters, or just available on Amazon. You can watch Amazon just like Netflix. I have Amazon Prime, so I hope it's on there!?
@@aMuenchGrinch it is available in some theaters. It is available in Asheville and Charlotte, NC, in Atlanta, GA.....in the Regal cinemas, do you have that chain in Texas?
Please be objective and critical thinking about it. The one-child policy has its own goods and bads. However, from the trailer, it seems to stir up some emotional empathy to those who suffer from the policy. China and the U.S. are culturally different, economical different, and idealogical different. You cannot just judge another person's life and decision from your own 'universal' standpoint of view. I agree that the One-Child policy truly did have huge negative impacts on Chinese people, especially the rural area of low-income people, but that doesn't mean it is absolutely evil and bad. I hope this documentary could be objective and speaking out both the pros and cons of the one-child policy, not just how bad it was! Otherwise, it seems more likely American propaganda toward China, in my opinion. Anyway, I'd love to see the content of it.
Bianca Amato unless you are one of the Chinese twins got taken away, you are in no position to call it a fact. However like I said I have twins classmates and schoolmates in my “one child policy “generation , that is a fact. For you information,the one child policy it as a one birth per family rule. In other words, if a woman gives birth to twins or triplets in one birthing, she won't be penalized in any way.
My family deeply respect most chinese policies..including one child policy..so me only child like my other cousins..all couples in our family hav given best education,food and comfort..we have no regret..and happy in life..I have seen in my country India..families with poverty but many children and how badly parents treat them ..population is a kinda curse in India
Yup. They support Planned parenthood, a multimillion dollar business. Yes they do STD testing and hand out condoms but that's it. They don't do prenatal care, just ultrasounds and there's much more care than for pregnancy (blood work, shots if the parents have conflicting blood types, medications)
I don't understand why so many people complain about policies and government but don't complain about these horrible parents. Anyway,these parents don't have any ability and money to raise their children . If there is no policy, they may keep their children as workers ,they will live in ignorance and poverty for the rest of their lives. And the only thing they can do is reproduction. One child policy was always mentioned in Western countries. But you never mentioned at the same time,the Chinese government also said Boys and girls are same. The consequences today are caused by old ideas and selfish parents.Not government. And I really want to tell you,nobody has the real rights to judge the things they don’t familiar with. Is there anyone who has a minimum idea about economy/ecology/anthropology? You can write a email to a professor in these filds and ask their opinions.
I'd like someone to explain to me how my uncle managed to have 3 kids under this policy as a rural villager outside Xian. And then there are the human interest stories featuring common Chinese families that casually mention the 2 or 3 other siblings in the household. Recently, a poli sci study revealed there to be a large number of unregistered children. Scofflaws seem abundant. Let's face it, China has historically been more about quantity over quality when it came to family planning. The one child policy forced families to invest in the one (or two in cases of rural families where the 1st child was a girl) child - better education, higher aspirations, focused resources, greater ROI. Many a Chinese families would perhaps still be mired in generational poverty if not for this consolidation of family resources.
Personally, I think it is the deeply rooted belief that boys are more valued in China might be the root cause that makes girls lose the chance to live. As a documentary, it'd better cover the whole population to avoid sampling bias. I, as a girl born in 90' in a big city in China, has enjoyed resources and attention from the whole family because I'm the only child. I said this only because girls CAN live better or worse under the one-child policy, and it depends on the family's actual socioeconomic status and its beliefs towards gender equality! Let me ask you a question - Which comes first, gender discrimination against females or One Child Policy? The purposeful confusion of gender inequality and the one-child policy has earned this documentary plenty of rage, empathy, and tears from the audience, while it also explains why the documentary somehow seems biased, especially when it chose only to tell all the pitiful stories of girls, largely ignoring good sides the policy has brought. I saw the One Child Policy as an institutional policy that had to be conducted in China, considering the explosive population increase by the time when OCP was carried out. However, I do think One Child Policy might be detrimental to individual families and should be considered a deprivation of reproductive rights as well.
it is, though. a lot of people were known to give away their babies, abandon them, or straight up kill them when they were born female. your singular experience does not dictate the experience of the rest. for example, incestual pedophilic rape by male relatives is rampant in my own country, and luckily i have not experienced that (or know anyone that has), but im not gonna flat out say "ah, i didnt get raped by my uncle/older cousin, and none of my friends have, so it really doesnt happen in my country !!" that logic is just plain wrong. china is a big country of over 1 billion people, so it's a careless mistake to assume that your personal experience is shared by everyone. this document simply highlights the fact that the OCP worsened the gender inequality (both literally, as in the gender ratio; and figuratively, as in misogyny) by making people prefer to have sons if they had to choose what gender their allotted "one child" would be. while i agree that these people mostly didnt have a choice both because of the law and the discouragement of critical thinking by the propaganda of the government in the past, i still agree that it was wrong. i eat junk food but im not going to try and justify junk food and pretend its healthy because its not. we can acknowledge that bad things have happened without painting people as evil. "hate the sin, not the sinner", as the saying goes, and this documentary is merely showing people what they dont know.
Hold on, it's limited to one birth per family, not one child. If you had twins, you wouldn't have to choose between one or another, you could have both. I know this because my mother was a doctor in China, she was familiar with the birth thing, my sister's birthdate was even moved back 4 months so she could go to school a year earlier. The one-child policy was not meant to be harmful, it was meant to solve a population crisis that led to food shortages.
I met a Chinese woman who told me they abductedand forced pregnant women into state vehicles , brought to hospitals to have their babies and told them they died...then their babies were given to rich Chinese women instead.
From the movie and from what I read this is partly true - they were not given to "rich Chinese women" but rather western families that could pay the fees.
The one issue I have with this release is that it has a very strong, if limited, bias against those in the USA that fight for the rights of the unborn child. I do not support blanket prohibition on abortion, but at some point the child has a right to life, and this is totally ignored in the limited comments at the end of the piece. It is unfortunate in that it lessons the weight of the main point in the presentation.
Meanwhile in the United States your country doesn't seem to care about the children that are already born. Kids get killed everyday with mass shootings and your government doesn't do anything about it so how can you really be pro life?
As a chinese now and forever ,I can't agree with the viewpoint and position of this movie. one child policy was made under complex environment and background ,but people now in China really live happy lives, happier than ever, and we can have two children now , I support my country. Plus ,the film shows no representative for chinese people, I don't think this is worthy to watch.
@Lucas Muller thats because of the ancient notion and patriarchal dogmatism and absurd desire of having a boy which is still prevalent in most south asian countries im from India also im a boy and over here you don't know families goes to extreme length to bring the supposed torch bearer of their legacy(i.e, boy) so logically i will not hold the government accountable for such crisis
@Lucas Muller Many people don't know that Indian government took an initiative of mass sterilization campaign for male counterparts around 1970(which is a good initiative in my opinion)in order to control the population of our country. Although the campaign failed miserably due to the incompetency of the administrator who were not able preach this to common people.Also due to lack of awareness and education there were mass hysteria among the citizens of our country.Family used to hide their male members to escape from vasectomy it was a tough time as my father recalls.Thus my point is you cannot blame this on a single entity entirely when the problem is massive it is deep rooted specially in this part of the world.
@Lucas Muller The one-child policy was true, and there were indeed many people who choose to have an abortion. But what I mean was there is a problem in the perspective of this film. The real documentary should include a macro view of the background and environment of a thing. The angle of this film is so limited, what kind of idea it is trying to spread? Just like the chaos in Hong Kong, many media used their cameras only aimed at the police. They only took the self-defense and resistance actions of the police. But for the robbers’ looting, setting a fire, attacking police and innocent passengers, trying to grab guns from police, so many terrible acts were all ignored and just let go. Ok, these media were recording part of the truth, but they were not recording the real world, see the full picture, please!
Love these film and I know these policy created lots of tragedies in China and this is one of most important event happened in PRC’s history which has long term effect
Its showing only the negative part of one child policy.....there more positives than the negatives and India needs the same policy too....the population explosion is very severe here!!!!
I don’t think its horrible I’m glad my family gave me up instead of suffering and starving to death just to raise me what else can you do when you have almost 2 billion people dying and not enough food to go around? Let them suffer?
Lol at least the movie should make sure all the information is accurate, Not being fooled by one family who gave up their own child and then blamed on the policy. The only child policy doesn’t apply to multiple births, because that is natural cause.
I haven't watched the documentary yet But why were twins separated? I read online that twins and triplets would be considered as a single birth so it wouldn't be a problem
It's not really that the one-child policy let people abandon children, it is the old view that girls are worth less than boys. Of course it would be easier to blame the policy, which is by no means perfect, than to blame their own sexism.
Haopei Yang Same. I don't like this policy though but you'll find most abandoned children are girl. And the situation get worse. Now some Chinese send the blood of the fetus to some hong kong hospitals to check its gender, if it was a girl, the fetus would be aborted, so they don't need to abandon or kill the child now, they kill girls in uterus.
To overcome this policy, my Chinese friend chosen his bride from Myanmar. She and their children lives in Myanmar and he travels to Myanmar occasionally. I hope once they could live together forever.
I was a result from the one child policy. As far as I know I was left on the street and I don’t even know how I got to an orphanage but I did. I watched this and I cried. I know 10 other girls who were adopted in the same group as me from Hubei and we still keep in touch. We were adopted in 2002. We are all gonna be 19 in 2020. I wanna find my birth parents but it’s gonna be slim to none.
My heart goes out to you! I hope you and all the other girls get to meet their birth parents in the future!
im kind of curious why you would want to meet your parents who abandoned you ? some might say they had to but if they just preferred a male child, they absolutely had a choice
Are you now in hubei , Wuhan
@Ayan Kumar Reservation compare with one child policy? No doubt that you are a upper caste bhakth.
First ask to Modi to stop begging vote by using his lower class status.
@Ayan Kumar control ingen population and upliftment of depressed class
How is that even related?
Kuch padh kar aaya करो 😂
You don’t want one child in family, you want a boy child in the family. One child policy was unfair to everyone but more to girl child.
This is exactly what people in India are failing to realise.
Even without a child policy we have selective female deaths...and it will get only worse once such policy comes into affect in India
@@akmalkhan7134 we have democracy , no need to take authoratian step like China . people need to be educated n so do children
& here comes a *feminist*
@@foreverboy6697 my statement was not a feminist comment but a fact.
@@Bijlxmsth a *feminist fact* ?
In 2011, my wife and I adopted twin, 15 month old girls from China. It was the single greatest thing that I will ever do in my entire life. I could cure cancer and it would not be a better. My children are brilliant, smart, respectful and above all - happy. Very happy. This movie is very personal and very disturbing to me. As someone who lived in China for approximately 5 weeks, I know first-hand about what this moves shows. Trust me, it is 100% accurate.
I do appreciate your great love to your little girls. But I have to say that you might need to spend more time in China until you really know something.
@@emanonlee6889 sorry, but curing cancer would objectively be better than anything you could do for 2 people.
Thank you for your act of kindness! God bless you and your family
Thank you 谢谢你 好人 you are really kind
谢谢你的对孩子的支持和帮助，我也为我国家的政策而感到失望😞这个政策造成了太多的悲剧 Thanks for your support and help at the same time I feel disappointed to my country’s one child policy, these tragedies has created by these law
Just watched this documentary, it really shock me. I am myself born under the one-chid policy, however, lucky enough to have a brother who is one year younger. The documentary matches a lot from stories that I have heard from my parents and grandparents. My mum was forced to be sterilized right after giving birth my brother. My family also paid an expensive fine for having my brother. However, I didn't know that we are already the lucky ones until I watched this documentary. As a girl in the family, growing up, I'm always upset that my parents were giving more attentions to my brother only because he is a boy. And my grandma's name is "bangdi" which means "bring a brother". All of these are accurately captured in this documentary.
@happyotaku195 Can you tell me what it is like living in a country where you don't have any uncle or aunt or cousin due to one-child policy?
One of my best friends and colleague, was that second child. His father was an engineer and had to take the decision to escape to Latin America with his first daughter and his wife pregnant with my friend. Fortunately, his mother could cope with the long travel while pregnant and they were able to settle and my buddy was born here and not in mainland China. Now he is a great entrepreneur and a family man, with 2 kids as well. I’m really grateful that him and his family could escape this terrible fate
Watching this trailer has brought me to tears. I was born in China in the late 90’s. And was abandon at a police station and sent to an orphanage. According to my parents, when they adopted me, I wasn’t in the greatest health, physically and mentally. In which I have struggled with both growing up. I ended up being adopted with 13 other girls from the same orphanage in 2000 and we have kept touch with each other over the years. As I have gotten older I have done a lot of own searching. I have been going through my own papers to see what I can find. And found a few interesting things about where I am actually from. But nothing about my birth family. Which makes me sad because I know I have family there. And who knows they might be trying to find their lost daughter but nobody would ever know. Finding them will be hard because there is a lot people in China but I won’t stop searching. The one thing is that I don’t hold any resentment towards them because they made the choice to save me. If they didn’t I wouldn’t be here and have the life I have today.
Oh Abbey ! This makes me sad.
Love from India girl ❤
in which city were you abandoned? I was also abandoned at a police station, but in early 2003
Hi
@Alexia , I’m so sorry I just your comment and finally replying (5 months later). I was abandoned in Taunfeng County. I believe it’s in Huanggang City, Hubei Province. It’s located near Wuhan. Where my adoption took place.
i hope you still embrace your heritage and culture regardless you found your parents or not. 你会看得懂中文吗？all the best to you and hope u guys crossed path.
Back in 1997, I met a man on a train who said he choke his just-born second kid to death in his bare hand, due to the One Child Policy. At that time I was so shocked not only what he did, but the quiet and accustomed face given by the other dozen audiences surrounding him.
BTW I am Chinese and the only kid of my parents. At that time, my parent would both lose their job if they dare to give birth to more than one kid. I should have had a sister, who was aborted, 30 years ago.
Im so sorry for your loss and ft. Or your hsrdship not being able to love your sister..How very sad. Its not your fault of course but a big mistas ke of China..
I'm sorry that you had to experience that :(
what point are you trying to make? let the world go with 80 billion people and no one can have a decent life?
@@user-dp4bu8jy4b you just take his words at face value?
@@user-dp4bu8jy4b that's shy you believe this bs www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/07/21/commentary/birth-of-a-massacre-myth/#.XQ4v7FOuaDY
I wept just watching the trailer. My mom climbed over a low wall on the rooftop to hide and kept me alive. "The love for the country equals to the love of the party". You raise up one of the most dangerous (to the party) questions. I admire your courage and commitment. May GOD bless you.
This need an oscar nomination
Wow! You got a like from amazon?! That's awesome! Congrats!
True
China wouldn't approve
This film broke my heart into a million pieces. And for that family that tried to hide and basically had to pay ransom money. The government will never admit they were wrong about this and that is a betrayal of your own people.
It's not wrong it's BEYOND insane. It's. The worst. Ever
The CPC has no true love for the Chinese people. Death has always plaid an important role in their policies. One of the reasons they are able to maintain a firm grip on power.
I was born in 1997 and my family is really different from others because I have 2 older sisters. Every my classmates were shocked when they knew this fact because it was already rare to have two children in a family, it's almost impossible to have three. As far as I know, there was 1 or 2 times per year that someone from the Family I Office would check every family in the town and if this family got a second kid, they fined a lot and even took away the furnitures as punishment. So I used to hide at my home or my relatives' house to prevent from being caught. But later, it's not that serious and we three grow up normally and healthy.
And I believe there is no regulation that families have to divide the twins. I have good friends who are twins when I was elementary school.
分地区的。有些地方严，有地方松。不过大多数地方交钱就成，没钱另说
I watched this yesterday and had tears in my eyes when they showed the FULL babies in yellow bags labeled "waste." So many were aborted when they basically were full term.. Its heartbreaking. This really was eye opening.
I'm 8 months pregnant with my first. This broke my heart. 😭
@@cassieh5506 Congrats on your pregnancy. Yes this is so so sad.
Despite all the heart wrenching stories, Chinese government's decision was rational and need of the hour. In Asian cultures specially India and China, marriages and breeding children are extremely important irrelevant of your economic situation and living conditions. Even if you are a begger even then you are going to marry another begger and breed 10 children who would assist you in your begging profession. Advancement in medical science and decrease in mortality rate, gave rise to this situation. Within 70 years, people in India and China produced 1 billion people each.
Hahajajah ir feminist, u aproves China
@@lamatrix6084 Why are you laughing? Wtf is funny about this?
this brings back memories, I just finish watching the full film, and it really brings back memories and is true it was very unfair for female babies especially, i remember in my orphanage we had so many girls and only the prettiest one got more food, better clothing, and more attention, very unfair and sad how after so many years i still remember when i was 4 and my mom had to left me in a foster house and then she never came back, i wonder for so many years in my life why she didnt want me, for many years i thought she just didn't care about me because i wasn't pretty or because i wasn't smart, growing up i never thought the one-child policy was bad or strange i never connect both me being abandon and the one-child policy until later many years after i found my mother and told me the truth.
What is prosperity when people live in such gloom...
Nehru ji rightly said india is a happily poor...
I believe everyone will be rather happily poor than being rich and totally sad
food matters dude, starvation is a sin
@@RahulKumar-ng2gh letting this montrosity happen trumps that sin
2 child policy is better for India tbh
@rahul kumar
Food matters... You're right... But the hunger is due to mismanagement of government and not because of depletion of food...
I don't think I've witnessed a shortage of growth in rice wheat and basics crops n India...
There are farmers selling their commodities at a cheaper price ... I never saw anywhere in the market a shopkeeper saying regularly for 5-6 years that there's a shortage of supply... But he says that he wants more and more customers..
So I think it's the mismanagement by ruling leaders which is blamed on people..
And what about those killings in the womb of women... If a person has 1 child girl... And second he wants boy..?? What he will do ..
China has taken back is policy of 2 child btw because they know in future they'll be lacking manufacturing crisis like Europe and America...
Kudos to India if they want to do this and destri their future
@@bilalansari1276 ,ansari sahab itana likhte ho kyun . labour demand supply , minimum . machine age
Wow this documentary made me cry. Aborting full term fetuses, force sterilizations, the lady repenting her sins by helping infertile couples, the artist's photos of dead babies in medical waste trash bags, and the pictures of abandoned babies brought me to tears. Had me feeling all types of ways.
Chinese government did it, before Thanos thought of it
Exactly same thought in my mind
they are two very different things with very few exceptions
@@abhisheksharma9060 um,I know. I live there.
Same thing happened in India ,in the name of dowery , sati,girl child abortion,and many North Indian communities killed their own new born girl child for the sake of pride only difference is that no one knew any recognized movie or documentary about that...
Overpopulation is dangerous. However I don't appreciate the way Chinese govt handled it by introducing such atrocious policies. They could have educated people to plan families and take contraception like in India. My heart goes out to all the Chinese parents who went through this trauma
Trying to be objective, twins within one-time birth don't against the one-child policy at the time in China. Feeling slightly confused about the details of the girl saying she has an older twin sister living (hypothetically being adopted and raised?) in US?
The existence of this documentary is beyond breath-taking, it files the history, the specific history happened under specific circumstance. Pray for people who went through the trauma.
Even if both babies are allowed to be born, one might have to be given up for adoption. I'm assuming that's why the girl has a sister in the US.
@@emmaqiuHmm, I was born in China at the time, going to school twin classmates so I knew it wasn't against the policy, well, there could be details that none of us outsiders know. Hope she could reunion with her sister one day.
There’s a possible reason that the family could not raise both of them. Especially if they are girls, possible thought “if we sent this girl away we could have another boy” some people did give births to two kids in relatively short period of time and register them as twins to be legal. No matter what the situation was, it is heartbreaking to see the heartbreaking outcomes
I was born and raised in China in 2001. As far as I know twins are fine and it's not against the policy.
(My hypothesis is that the twins who got separated happened in some tire 3 cities where the government officials practice abuse of power)
In rural aera. When your first child is girl, you are allowed to have a second child. But if you have 2 daughters(including twins), you can't have a third child.
"Throughout my life I was led to believe that love for my country is equal to love of my government"
it's still prevalent today. i used to teach chinese people who would complain about problems in china and then when i ask them "so do you plan to maybe move to another country in the future??" they would usually say "no because china is the best country" or something along those lines. it's actually sad to witness. they know there are issues but are either too scared or are simply havent honed their critical thinking skills enough to recognize the root of these problems, which is more often than not, their own government.
@@aintnobodylikeu have you ever considered the possibility it's cuz China doesn't allow dual citizenship?
I am a girl and 3rd child of my family ,suddenly feel happy for living in a poor and small country like Bangladesh
Extremely shocking and sad. So cruel, the government just assumed people will starve. Now they need more children.
Brilliant documentary. I saw it at The Nantucket Film Festival. It’s incredibly disturbing how vile the CPC is and how death always plays an important role in their policies.
Such a shocking and eye opening documentary. The most amazing point for me is that how many people in China just simply adopt “policies” and justify their actions by “policies”.
Previously, based on my interests, I tried to talk with different Chinese people and indirectly infer their thoughts about their government (mostly educated ones, some of them highly educated). Most of them are not aware of their history, the extent the government control, and the need for a more-open society. I understand that they are happy with economic developments that happened in China in the last three decades and feel a national pride. But to think your country to be equal to a party, its leadership, and its policies is something that is not understandable for me.
Congratulations to Nanfu Wang's film making the Oscar shortlist for Documentary Feature.
I just saw this documentary at MOMA in NYC. It’s heartbreaking to think about all those innocent babies.
For those disappointed that this didn't make an Oscar nom, please check out Sister (妹妹), which got the animated short nomination today. Relevant with a very different artistic lens to portraying this issue.
My mom brought it up, thinking that I could’ve had parents who loved me and that I could’ve been forcefully taken from them hurts me, this is my heritage. But I’d be nothing without my family now
I always thought my country have lot problems but no every country have their own problem.
After a few years....new movie be like....
Coronavirus : - There was a china
🤣🤣
China khud dubega aur duniya ko apane saath dubayega
@@anushricharmer5469 are yaar
aged like milk
More like "There was a west"
Most environmentalist praises China for its one child police. Even my professor is who use to teach at Harvard commends its effort. There was a period where the western government were forcing contraception policies upon developing nations ( India ) in exchange for aids. China didn’t come up with this policy on its own which is ironic. Look into your own history there are often many sides. It is easier to blame one instead of understanding the situation. My own family had to abort due to this policy. Even with its policy lifted now lost Chinese only want one child because it is simply too expensive to raise more than one.
thank you for speaking up and sharing.
There are only 2 outcomes. One is overpopulation and everyone suffers. The second is 1 child policy. It was a complex issue, not that simple
Useful Idiots
The film not only demonizes the one-child policy, but also beautifies traffickers, describing the phenomenon of female infanticide and abandonment of female infants in rural areas as something that has to be done under the pressure of the policy, but also pulls a family of farmers who have eight children on a minimum living allowance to pretend pity. The director has also been guiding the interviewees to speak black Chinese. I really trembled in the cinema. The audience was basically foreigners. After watching this film, I really understand why European and American society has such a big prejudice against China.
There is NO overpopulation. It was a complete and utter bullshit lie
Update for anyone who wants to watch it (in the US anyways): Amazon Prime says it's coming November 8th
It's on PBS for two weeks. www.pbs.org/video/one-child-nation-iijxfi/
how much immeasurable pain and suffering this policy caused - terrible
The only other trailer that ever made me cry was "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" when Tom Hanks/Mr Rogers says " you can play all the lowest keys on the piano..BOOOOOOOOOM". And that's because it was so beautiful. But this one made me cry because its really tragic and sad.
When will this be available for streaming? There are no more showtimes and I can't find any current information.
Available for two weeks on PBS www.pbs.org/video/one-child-nation-iijxfi/
It is the most stunning documentary I watched in a decade. It is the best and strongest documentary.
Where can you watch this? Nothing current is coming up when I search
Amazon prime on Nov 8
@G It's on PBS for two weeks www.pbs.org/video/one-child-nation-iijxfi/
What is the name from the song 0:45?
Will this movie be available on Amazon?
I come from north china, and live in city, my place is not terribly like it. I think most happened in village. And Chinese old cultures ‘ boy can follow family name; and Prosperity of descendants, that means the family is strong.’ So The average family has five children, or more. I don’t agree director said ‘ how much can a child eat? That’s not just one family child, , that’s whole china family, one family have 5 children, then every child will have another 5 children, China's population will be more and more. When a mother gives birth in a hospital , you want to protect mom life first ? Or child first ? Actually even if Even if all children can be born. Many children will still die because of insufficient supplies. If no the policy, now the news will be that A large influx of Chinese refugees into various countries. ‘ The policy idea is good, just’ one child ‘is too less, at least ‘two children’ will be better. The government should increase the supervision of subordinates.
this documentary is very good. it doesnt boil it all down to one agenda, it actually explores all perspectives of those who carried out the policy's orders and those who were victimized by those orders. forced sterilizations, forced killings of fetuses, finding dead babies under bridges. the ethics of such acts being done out of nationalistic and collective interest fall too far between, "its a population war" vs "i had an individual choice". no, the choice was automatically politicized because the law forbid it. the social and cultural norms only served to undermine the absence of choice even further, and boys were favored because families thought it was the only way to save their history and perserve their legacy. still, although this slightly changes my previous position about the policy, i wish they would at least consider the consequences. some of the ex officials sounded quite unapologetic, putting the ethics of their individual actions aside and using the same old propaganda filled excuses of "national pride and preservation". but then again, their entire lifes worth integrity and morality was basically being destroyed by the ccp, although they were praised endlessly, lots of people probably look at them with horror and disgust.
Saw this in Chicago. SPOILER ALERT. Liked it for the most part. One thing that was strange was the people interviewed knew this was a law and still had a baby. And they knew the entire government would go after them. I found that being dumb and inviting suffering to your life. Also they thought it bad that orphanages would adopt out babies to western families. But in the same breath discuss how baby girls would be left on the street to die full of mosquito in a few days. Adoption seems better than death but I guess not to them. Finally I found it interesting when they were able to track down these adopted children in the west and they DIDN"T want to talk to them. The Chinese families were hurt by this. I saw nothing wrong with this. You're a girl that almost died and someone said they wanted you in the west. It might take time to look back - if ever. Overall it was interesting but nothing major revealed. I guess you can say they took the microscopic view vs the global / national view in this movie.
Where in Chicago did you see this movie? Cannot find it in Chicago.
@@rlgorneymiller I saw it at the Chicago Century theater on Clark Near Diversey.
Okay... I've known the two sides of this story for quite a while now. It was inhumane to deprive people of their reproductive rights and in so many places this policy had ripped families apart and even resulted in infanticides. That said, as a girl hailing from a southeastern Chinese city I'd say a generation of young females were given the chance to live a totally different life. Families that would've practiced the century-old favoritism towards sons had to accept they got a daughter, forced to reexamine their attitudes. Those only-daughters were afforded education and career opportunities beyond expectations. Btw just speaking from my experiences at uni, at least half of Chinese didn't limit themselves to one child under the policy. Public servants and people from a certain handful of provinces were more than likely to be held against this policy.
Thank you for posting your experience Lu. It is wonderful that you prospered. You had strong parents to raise you well in a changing culture.
Thats complete bullshit... you use that to justify the murder of millions of innocent children?
BrothersandSisters well right now this policy is gone. Maybe we can moving forward and unite to against wars? So there is no gov killing our brothers and sisters in Middle East?
Good point! Same with you. Got the good opportunity of education, because I am the only daughter of my parents.
@@susiej5286 Hi, I understand that you are closely interested in the one-child policy. can i just ask one question for my research paper :) can you help me?
One Child policy wouldn't happened if China adopted market economy earlier. Mao's centrally planned economy caused starvation, not overpopulation
Great work!!! A needed one, next can you make a documentary on Uighurs please?
This makes me appreciate my country policies tbh
Yeah but the same country where people protest against padmavati.
@xpion22 dragzuhan True..But education doesn't mean open minded mentality.. Education in our country means degree..that also needs to be changed. Many EDUCATED people still think backwards.
@dragzuhan Guess You didn't got my point.. Anyway.
Como pode?????? Aterrorizante.
Why is the Arte UA-cam video on Private now?
This film is just amazing i felt something out of this world at the same time it's sad to see something like this but it's amazing how it got filmed 💓💓💓
They should have made exception for twin children.
I have never cried so much watching a film.
Do you guys know where this will be shown in China? Just kidding.
Amazon is a big company. Why this video dont have turkish subtitle !
Neden Türkçe altyazı yok !
Wait, is this only being shown in movie theatres? I thought Amazon Studios would make it available for Prime members to stream
So does that mean theres no where to watch this? ?
yes it will be on Amazon but I do not know when
@@Sassysidewalk2.0 It's on PBS for two weeks www.pbs.org/video/one-child-nation-iijxfi/
When the documentary will be uploaded in some website to see it? I've searched for it, but in the only webpages when you can see it you have to give your credit number. I'm Spanish and I'm wondering if I could see it somewhere with spanish subtitles, even if maybe it's not going to happen.
I was the only girl from this generation, my mom was forced to abortion of my little brother in 5 month. She told me , they even show her the little dead body of my brother to her after the abortion, it was a tragedy. Now we left China and living in United States, I can only imagine if my little brother could be here with us , it kills me to see this , what a devil
Does anyone know the name of the music being played?
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Heartbreaking. No government should ever have the right to step in the way of a woman's reproductive rights.
Oh stfu. You do realize that we have limited resources on this planet. Most people will just keep having babies regardless.
Yeah? what would you have done? Let almost 2 billion people suffer and die everyday? I’m sure you have no idea what it’s like starve. You cannot speak unless you were in their shoes
The world needs this policy. We have exhausted the planets resources, but hey at least our rights to have children haven't been taken away.....that's sarcasm btw
Ryno most people? You mean women? So women should be mutilated, have their babies take from them, and forced to have more children so that they can satisfy the patriarch? Why don’t you STFU!
@@izzyhezz he never said women
I am a woman myself
Nd i believe having a single child is a decision that should be taken by people on their own
When humans do not understand the disaster of overpopulation someone has to use force
Honestly i do not blame the chinese govt
I blame the population for wanting a male over a female child
I blame the patriarch society(with you on this!)
I blame people for killing their own children
And mutilation is a very strong for medical guided tubectomy
Released on January 26th 2019, One Child Nation is an fascinating American documentary about the effects of the One Child Policy in China. It was directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang with interviews from various members of Wang’s family (her uncle, aunt, mother, grandfather and brother), ex-human traffickers, former village chiefs, midwives, state officials, and artist (Peng Wang, Yueneng Duan, Tunde Wang, Jiaoming Pang, Xianwen Liu, Huaru Yuan, Shuquin Jiang, Brian Stuy, Longlan Stuy and Shuangjie Zeng). Wang dives deep into Chinese society to shockingly discover the impacts of the policy. She learns about the common child infanticide of the time, the human trafficing as well as the forced abortions and sterilizations. As well as how the current Chinese people are affected by their trauma.
I thought the documentary was very well done. Wang showed the common opinions and general events in China at the time, as well as more specific stories of those affected. For example, the mechanics of the One Child Policy were explained. She showed how women were forced to be sterilized and their possessions and houses were destroyed, which was done by family planners and government officials. Wang introduced the Chinese concepts of the “population war”, as the country fought economic hardships and felt the need to reduce its starving population. Furthermore, we saw the cultural phenomenon of how boys were more valued than girls, who were more often abandoned. She also explained the “International Adoption Program” and the matchmakers, how abandoned babies were trafficked and almost 130,000 were adopted internationally. In addition to this, Wang showed us specific stories, examples and perspectives to help us truly resonate with the events. She spoke to a rural midwife who shared her experiences with forced abortions and sterilizations. The midwife had traveled from town to town where they had taken women and made them abort. She remembered how the pregnant women had screamed and tried to run away. However, the midwife learned to recognize the pain she caused. Trying to make amends, she now helps hopeful couples have children. Wang also showed the story of how one twin from a poor rural family had her sister taken away from her under the One Child Policy. This really allowed the watcher to understand the trauma and pain the policy put these families through. However, the documentary did feel a little biased as Wang didn’t really try to understand why some Chinese families were supportive of the policy. And the policy makers reasoned for implementing the policy in the first place.
In the end of the documentary, Wang showed us how, across all interviews, there was a collective sense of hopelessness and resolve by the Chinese people toward the policy. They often felt they “had no choice”. From poor families to midwives to state officials, they all shared this feeling. Finally she showed how China is currently encouraging people to have more children as a result of there now not being enough children. I thought this documentary was very well done with lots of interviews and perspectives. I like how Wang explained the policy and situation in general before diving into specific, more intimate stories (like that of the midwife and the twin). In this way, I was able to really understand and absorb the extent of the impacts of the policy (both generally and intimately). My one critique would be to hear more of the rationale behind the support of the policy. I felt like we heard that some people liked the policy, but we didn’t really get to hear in depth why. However, I do understand that Wang’s goal was to shed light on the trauma of the policy and in that I think she did a good job.
Despite all the heart wrenching stories, Chinese government's decision was rational and need of the hour. In Asian cultures specially India and China, marriages and breeding children are extremely important irrelevant of your economic situation and living conditions. Even if you are a begger even then you are going to marry another begger and breed 10 children who would assist you in your begging profession. Advancement in medical science and decrease in mortality rate, gave rise to this situation. Within 70 years, people in India and China produced 1 billion people each.
Wanting to procreate is a natural biological thing. Also the reason for ppl starving which led to China's 1 child policy & also for India's 2 child policy in the 80s was bcoz of their foolish decision to stick to Socialism.
@@nuzlockstarter5345 Wanting to procreate exists but societal pressure and cultural conditioning leads to overbreeding despite limitation of resources around them.
I pissed off some people so much that they are posting excerpt of my above comment under my videos for publicly shaming me.🤔😂
@@MrSivansuresh take your 10$ from ccp
@@devamurugansankaran2398 They pay in Yuan, not in $.
I know someone in china who has a sister. She said it's actually a two-child policy and she is Chinese born around the same time as this girl.
Well. As a Chinese who's born and raised in China myself. 70% of this film is true imo. The one child policy destroyed many people's family and hope afterall. However, in reality most of people in smaller cities and rural areas will just pay a one time tax if they had 2 or more children (non-twins). The people in the city will just straight up do the abortion when they have second child by accident. The 70s-90s was a very dark time for Chinese people. But the policy has been slowly fading away since 2000. Matter of fact, now China is even encouraging people to have a second child, especially those who has no siblings. I guess the government realized there's a huge population drop in my generation which is causing shortage of labour already.
where's the full movie?
In India we do want two children policy.
We want it through proper education among the masses, improvement in living conditions. else people will abandon female children, just like they did in china
@@mariakhan6090 how you are going to improve the conditions without controlling the population? When you are going to give proper education? People are enough educated in this regard and no sane person will oppose population control bill. If someone is against population control Bill means, either they are idiots or prejudice people.
@@mariakhan6090 they would definitely add another half a billion, by the time you are going to give education. So, stringent actions are necessary to control population.
Allah nhi manege😂
@@mariakhan6090 education Don't change Múslims. We need police. But Múslims hate police they always feel discrimination in India poor fellows go to Pakistan. We need one or 2 child policy to all people who are leaving in India. We also need Strict policy to not let people abandoning girl child wether he is a Muslim or Hindu.
The base to this problem is the mindset of thinking that population is a bane.But population is a boon.
I was born in 90s under the one child policy and I’m a girl. I’d admit the policy did violate human rights to some point but that was the best way to control overpopulation because of the resource shortages and economic issues during that time. What are you expecting if China didn’t do it? Over 5 billion population or even more now? Then there would be another ironic movie coming out and sneering at the population? I know it feels sad to see families abort baby girls but that was not the problem of the single child policy and it didn’t happen everywhere in China. I was born in a small city but ppl didn’t have any judgements on either you had a boy or a girl at that time not mention nowadays. For the families like in the movie, what if they have baby boys, are they still gonna abandon them? This movie was too biased and limited bc it only focused on the remote areas in China where ppl with lower income, not much educational background, and paid less attention to birth control. Why would you give birth to another child if you don’t have enough money to support the family already? That’s irresponsible! It’s gonna make the life even worse.
Ms. Lan, I understand your feelings but as many have commented, it was not only a cruel policy but a very shortsighted one. Who are those privileged men supposed to marry now that so many Chinese girl babies were tossed away? Human life is not disposable. The Govt.could have made more humane policies- it would have cost more money but was possible. So what price do you place on human life?
@@pamelag7553 Even if there was no one child policy, the baby girls would still be tossed away in those rural remote villages of China. If you are not a Chinese and have not grown up in China, then you do not know the situation, the tradition, the culture. One Child Policy, strangely, it actually gave girls a equal status in a culture that favorite boys.
You're only saying this bc you're one of the lucky baby girls that their family chose to keep. I doubt you'd even be alive to write this comment if you were abandoned and left to die or human trafficked. Its so easy to side and agree with a policy when we get the better end of the deal🙄
Parps like what Xiaoying said above, the single child policy was not the main reason why baby girls were tossed away. It’s the prejudices against girls we should blamed for. And I believe it’s getting better now in those remote areas. FYI, China is not the only country that has this problem. Again, you can’t truly put yourself in our shoes bc you didn’t grow up in China and you don’t know the culture and ppl but I appreciate your point. :)
I agree, you people cannot speak unless you were there in the governments shoes. What would you have done? I’d give anything to meet my birth parents but I believe China did us all a favor.
I think when the ppl say the poor should not have childrens 😔😔 imagine this kind of politics
This should be in contention for 2020 Oscars.
Good luck with that. There is no way that the Liberal establishment would allow that. My wife have 5 children. Two girls adopted from China. It makes me very sad to think that my precious girls and two of my joys and them came to us because of such government action. What a shame. I am taking my wire and girls to see this movie.
@@stant5741 what about this makes you think left leaning people would dislike it? The only thing that could stop this from getting a nomination, if it's as good as it looks, would be the fact that it's coming from a streaming service (though I wouldn't be surprised if it's hitting theaters first to satisfy eligibility requirements)
Amazon Studios exactly, banking on another country and its citizens’ supposedly “suffering”. Shame on you.
the lack of buzz ive heard so far is only because no-one wants to annoy the CCP
The documentary was about the one-child policy and its effect on the population of China. The director, producer, and narrator Nanfu interviewed Chinese citizens from all walks of life. She interviewed parents who had to give up or abandon their children, including her aunt and uncle. She also interviewed her mother, who was one of the few who was allowed to have two children. Nanfu also interviewed from the other perspective, talking with family planners and doctors who aborted children, sometimes as late as 9 months, and sterilized them. Nanfu also got multiple perspectives, she talked to one family planner who did not regret her actions, and one mid-wife who regretted her actions so much that she no longer aborts and delivers baby\ies, but instead now does fertility treatments for cheap to atone for her sins. This contrast was interesting to me because it was two people in very similar situations who felt very differently afterward. It seemed quite strange to me, that someone wouldn’t feel guilty, or even possibly could chase a woman and forcibly sterilize them and cause them to induce. Nanfu though, expertly explained the culture at the time and how the government’s propaganda caused people to wholeheartedly believe in the one-child policy. Despite having different reactions to their actions, both women felt they did not have a choice in their actions. Interestingly, an overarching theme in all of Nanfu’s interviews is that the people felt like they didn’t have any choice in their actions, whether they regretted it or not.
Another interesting factor the documentary brought up was how the one-child policy was monetized. The one child policy had a horrible effect on all children, but a disproportionate effect on girls. Families wanted sons to carry on the last name and legacy, so families would abandon their daughters so they could have another child which could potentially be a son. This allowed the one child policy to be monetized. Orphanages would hire people, (trash collectors, midwives, etc) people who roamed around a lot and could easily pick up abandoned babies, and pay them money (around 200 dollars) if they brought a baby to the orphanage. The orphanages would then put the babies up for international adoption, which brought in a lot of money. This showed me how corrupt the government was, by not only forcing these horrible situations but also profiting on it. They also blamed it on citizens instead of taking responsibility for baby trafficking. For example, Doan and his family for baby trafficking even though they were getting paid by the orphanage to do so.
I like how Nanfu brought up all these different aspects of the one child policy. She didn’t just focus on one thing, but instead talked about why babies were abandoned, the propaganda from the government, journalism on the one-child policy, midwives and councilmen’s opinions, and what happened to the babies after they were abandoned or adopted. The documentary, while focusing on the horrors of the one child policy, also brings to light the good people are trying to do as well. For example, the couple Brian and Long Lan formed an organization that works on matching babies who were internationally adopted by orphanages with their birth families.
Hmmm.... Here mentioned if you have twins, the government would force you to give away one of your kids... I’m pretty sure it’s not true! If a family give away one of the twin girls, it’s more likely because the family wants a boy but has difficulties to raise 3 kids. Since the movie has this wrong, I highly doubt if the rest of the movie is objective and based on the truths...
you're "pretty sure" huh? Seems like you're just wrong.
@@ronj9448 well im here to back this comment up. It is not true, twins and triplets are fine.
Local governments tended to interpret the policy differently from one another there was not a hard and fast rule. But their ultimate objective is to decrease the total number of births. In some places even childless couples were not allowed to give birth. Look up the Childless Hundred Days campaign in Shandong.
Does anyone know where i can watch this??? Ive been waiting for months im in texas??😞
I heard it's available to watch this coming Friday. It's an Amazon film, so I don't know if it'll be in theaters, or just available on Amazon. You can watch Amazon just like Netflix. I have Amazon Prime, so I hope it's on there!?
I saw an ad for ticket purchases in DC, NY and Philadelphia. Maybe afterwards it will be viewable on Amazon or maybe already is?
@@aMuenchGrinch it is available in some theaters. It is available in Asheville and Charlotte, NC, in Atlanta, GA.....in the Regal cinemas, do you have that chain in Texas?
Amazon Prime currently lists it as coming on the platform November 8th
@@aMuenchGrinch It's on PBS for two weeks www.pbs.org/video/one-child-nation-iijxfi/
Please be objective and critical thinking about it. The one-child policy has its own goods and bads. However, from the trailer, it seems to stir up some emotional empathy to those who suffer from the policy. China and the U.S. are culturally different, economical different, and idealogical different. You cannot just judge another person's life and decision from your own 'universal' standpoint of view. I agree that the One-Child policy truly did have huge negative impacts on Chinese people, especially the rural area of low-income people, but that doesn't mean it is absolutely evil and bad. I hope this documentary could be objective and speaking out both the pros and cons of the one-child policy, not just how bad it was! Otherwise, it seems more likely American propaganda toward China, in my opinion. Anyway, I'd love to see the content of it.
Babies suffering? I can't even go there with you. When you peel back the layers, what remained was a cruel and inhumane policy.
I agree, and about the twins part , there were twins in my class and my school , taking away one child of the twins is clearly false .
@@syyuuya759 no there were twins separated, thats a fact
Bianca Amato unless you are one of the Chinese twins got taken away, you are in no position to call it a fact. However like I said I have twins classmates and schoolmates in my “one child policy “generation , that is a fact. For you information,the one child policy it as a one birth per family rule. In other words, if a woman gives birth to twins or triplets in one birthing, she won't be penalized in any way.
Where can I watch it ??
It's on PBS for two weeks www.pbs.org/video/one-child-nation-iijxfi/
My family deeply respect most chinese policies..including one child policy..so me only child like my other cousins..all couples in our family hav given best education,food and comfort..we have no regret..and happy in life..I have seen in my country India..families with poverty but many children and how badly parents treat them ..population is a kinda curse in India
What Happen to Monday?
Except that amazon is promoting the very same thing through funding of the abortion industry....
Yup. They support Planned parenthood, a multimillion dollar business. Yes they do STD testing and hand out condoms but that's it. They don't do prenatal care, just ultrasounds and there's much more care than for pregnancy (blood work, shots if the parents have conflicting blood types, medications)
Just reporting, just films, no action taken....
I don't understand why so many people complain about policies and government but don't complain about these horrible parents. Anyway,these parents don't have any ability and money to raise their children . If there is no policy, they may keep their children as workers ,they will live in ignorance and poverty for the rest of their lives. And the only thing they can do is reproduction. One child policy was always mentioned in Western countries. But you never mentioned at the same time,the Chinese government also said Boys and girls are same. The consequences today are caused by old ideas and selfish parents.Not government. And I really want to tell you,nobody has the real rights to judge the things they don’t familiar with. Is there anyone who has a minimum idea about economy/ecology/anthropology? You can write a email to a professor in these filds and ask their opinions.
I'd like someone to explain to me how my uncle managed to have 3 kids under this policy as a rural villager outside Xian. And then there are the human interest stories featuring common Chinese families that casually mention the 2 or 3 other siblings in the household. Recently, a poli sci study revealed there to be a large number of unregistered children. Scofflaws seem abundant. Let's face it, China has historically been more about quantity over quality when it came to family planning. The one child policy forced families to invest in the one (or two in cases of rural families where the 1st child was a girl) child - better education, higher aspirations, focused resources, greater ROI. Many a Chinese families would perhaps still be mired in generational poverty if not for this consolidation of family resources.
Personally, I think it is the deeply rooted belief that boys are more valued in China might be the root cause that makes girls lose the chance to live. As a documentary, it'd better cover the whole population to avoid sampling bias. I, as a girl born in 90' in a big city in China, has enjoyed resources and attention from the whole family because I'm the only child. I said this only because girls CAN live better or worse under the one-child policy, and it depends on the family's actual socioeconomic status and its beliefs towards gender equality! Let me ask you a question - Which comes first, gender discrimination against females or One Child Policy? The purposeful confusion of gender inequality and the one-child policy has earned this documentary plenty of rage, empathy, and tears from the audience, while it also explains why the documentary somehow seems biased, especially when it chose only to tell all the pitiful stories of girls, largely ignoring good sides the policy has brought. I saw the One Child Policy as an institutional policy that had to be conducted in China, considering the explosive population increase by the time when OCP was carried out. However, I do think One Child Policy might be detrimental to individual families and should be considered a deprivation of reproductive rights as well.
it is, though. a lot of people were known to give away their babies, abandon them, or straight up kill them when they were born female. your singular experience does not dictate the experience of the rest. for example, incestual pedophilic rape by male relatives is rampant in my own country, and luckily i have not experienced that (or know anyone that has), but im not gonna flat out say "ah, i didnt get raped by my uncle/older cousin, and none of my friends have, so it really doesnt happen in my country !!" that logic is just plain wrong. china is a big country of over 1 billion people, so it's a careless mistake to assume that your personal experience is shared by everyone.
this document simply highlights the fact that the OCP worsened the gender inequality (both literally, as in the gender ratio; and figuratively, as in misogyny) by making people prefer to have sons if they had to choose what gender their allotted "one child" would be.
while i agree that these people mostly didnt have a choice both because of the law and the discouragement of critical thinking by the propaganda of the government in the past, i still agree that it was wrong. i eat junk food but im not going to try and justify junk food and pretend its healthy because its not. we can acknowledge that bad things have happened without painting people as evil. "hate the sin, not the sinner", as the saying goes, and this documentary is merely showing people what they dont know.
Hold on, it's limited to one birth per family, not one child. If you had twins, you wouldn't have to choose between one or another, you could have both. I know this because my mother was a doctor in China, she was familiar with the birth thing, my sister's birthdate was even moved back 4 months so she could go to school a year earlier.
The one-child policy was not meant to be harmful, it was meant to solve a population crisis that led to food shortages.
a child is always a blessing. an angel from God who defines happiness.
1:38 that's Hong Kong, not China !
They don't have heart.
Now Indian Govt. is thinking on two child policy even after seeing this drastic effect of such regulations.
Rising crime rates, social disorder and lack of social discipline are social issues of India.
I met a Chinese woman who told me they abductedand forced pregnant women into state vehicles , brought to hospitals to have their babies and told them they died...then their babies were given to rich Chinese women instead.
you are spreading hearsay...
From the movie and from what I read this is partly true - they were not given to "rich Chinese women" but rather western families that could pay the fees.
The one issue I have with this release is that it has a very strong, if limited, bias against those in the USA that fight for the rights of the unborn child. I do not support blanket prohibition on abortion, but at some point the child has a right to life, and this is totally ignored in the limited comments at the end of the piece. It is unfortunate in that it lessons the weight of the main point in the presentation.
Meanwhile in the United States your country doesn't seem to care about the children that are already born. Kids get killed everyday with mass shootings and your government doesn't do anything about it so how can you really be pro life?
As a chinese now and forever ,I can't agree with the viewpoint and position of this movie. one child policy was made under complex environment and background ,but people now in China really live happy lives, happier than ever, and we can have two children now , I support my country. Plus ,the
film shows no representative for chinese people, I don't think this is worthy to watch.
@Lucas Muller thats because of the ancient notion and patriarchal dogmatism and absurd desire of having a boy which is still prevalent in most south asian countries im from India also im a boy and over here you don't know families goes to extreme length to bring the supposed torch bearer of their legacy(i.e, boy) so logically i will not hold the government accountable for such crisis
@Lucas Muller Many people don't know that Indian government took an initiative of mass sterilization campaign for male counterparts around 1970(which is a good initiative in my opinion)in order to control the population of our country. Although the campaign failed miserably due to the incompetency of the administrator who were not able preach this to common people.Also due to lack of awareness and education there were mass hysteria among the citizens of our country.Family used to hide their male members to escape from vasectomy it was a tough time as my father recalls.Thus my point is you cannot blame this on a single entity entirely when the problem is massive it is deep rooted specially in this part of the world.
@Lucas Muller The one-child policy was true, and there were indeed many people who choose to have an abortion. But what I mean was there is a problem in the perspective of this film. The real documentary should include a macro view of the background and environment of a thing. The angle of this film is so limited, what kind of idea it is trying to spread? Just like the chaos in Hong Kong, many media used their cameras only aimed at the police. They only took the self-defense and resistance actions of the police. But for the robbers’ looting, setting a fire,
attacking police and innocent passengers, trying to grab guns from police, so many terrible acts were all ignored and just let go. Ok, these media were recording part of the truth, but they were not recording the real world, see the full picture, please!
@Lucas Muller Every coin has its two sides
@@swarinkeshmayankdas9612 Hide their male members ... heheh
Love these film and I know these policy created lots of tragedies in China and this is one of most important event happened in PRC’s history which has long term effect
Its showing only the negative part of one child policy.....there more positives than the negatives and India needs the same policy too....the population explosion is very severe here!!!!
The One-Child Policy AKA The best piece of evidence against Big Centralized Governments and Government meddling I've ever seen.
Lol at bunch of Chinese trying to defend this horrible politicy
I don’t think its horrible I’m glad my family gave me up instead of suffering and starving to death just to raise me what else can you do when you have almost 2 billion people dying and not enough food to go around? Let them suffer?
Lol at least the movie should make sure all the information is accurate, Not being fooled by one family who gave up their own child and then blamed on the policy. The only child policy doesn’t apply to multiple births, because that is natural cause.
@@peperika7845 You're proof most the brave where killed by Mao- The CCP is the worst thing on earth
I know the comment section is overrun by wumao
I haven't watched the documentary yet
But why were twins separated? I read online that twins and triplets would be considered as a single birth so it wouldn't be a problem
People republic of china party.. except there is no people only party 😥
Where can I watch this?
GIY.
It's on PBS for two weeks www.pbs.org/video/one-child-nation-iijxfi/
It's not really that the one-child policy let people abandon children, it is the old view that girls are worth less than boys. Of course it would be easier to blame the policy, which is by no means perfect, than to blame their own sexism.
Haopei Yang Same. I don't like this policy though but you'll find most abandoned children are girl. And the situation get worse. Now some Chinese send the blood of the fetus to some hong kong hospitals to check its gender, if it was a girl, the fetus would be aborted, so they don't need to abandon or kill the child now, they kill girls in uterus.
Reminds me of a 1971 movie called “ The Last Child”. When I watched it I knew that someday it would be true.
So Amazon doesn't afraid of Gina ?
English please.
Who is "Gina"?
To overcome this policy, my Chinese friend chosen his bride from Myanmar. She and their children lives in Myanmar and he travels to Myanmar occasionally.
I hope once they could live together forever.
很多人那么简单的脑回路也是开眼了。像指责政策实施过分极端或者政府没有想到之后粮食问题随着技术发展其实会解决还有点道理。大多数的人给出的理由无非都是我个人想要怎么样，我自己好难受。能有几个是能基于中国当时那么贫穷，又那么庞大的一个国家去评价的。
@Awakening DRAGON这些人被洗脑了， 美国洗脑很成功，所以民主是他妈扯蛋，一群傻逼在选， 真搞笑。
让他们再意淫几年吧，他们就是喜欢把复杂问题简单化然后给你扣上一个共产党大傻逼的帽子。他们的理想状况就是中国人口越来越多然后跟他们买粮食吃不起肉被他们牵着鼻子走，最后踏踏实实给他们缝裤衩背心儿造脸盆做拖鞋。咱们任何发展都是他妈傻逼眼里的原罪。我是不指望傻逼能懂事儿。
There is difference between One Child Policy and Family Planning. The second is one Chinese basic national policies and still going on.
'what choice did we have?' --- idk, keep the girl, and start using protection?