Only one child: China's: China's

Author: Yang Xiaosheng
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: According to expert estimates and incomplete statistics, there are 400,000 to 500,000 deaths among children under 15 in China each year due to accidental injuries. On average, 40 to 50 students in China die prematurely from accidents every day. These accidents include diseases, car crashes, fires, water-related incidents, suicides, and other tragedies that lurk in daily life, ready to strike at any moment. Only One Child is the first comprehensive record in Chinese history of accidental injuries among only-children, and it is a long-form reportage filled with tears and blood, imbued with passion and profound rationality. Author Yang Xiaosheng, through years of research and writing, conducted arduous visits to a series of only-child families who had suffered accidental injuries, presenting this long-standing yet widely unrecognized and underestimated major life and social issue starkly before our eyes.