Only one child -- A Tragic Report on Unexpected Injuries of China's One-Child Policy

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 child deaths under the age of 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, traffic accidents, fires, water-related incidents, suicides, and other misfortunes, all of which lurk in daily life and could strike at any moment. Only One Child is the first comprehensive record in Chinese history of accidental injuries among only-children, and it is also a long-form reportorial work filled with tears and blood, imbued with passion and profound rationality. Author Yang Xiaosheng, through years of research and writing, presents this significant life and social issue—long existing yet widely unrecognized and underestimated—to us in a harrowing manner by interviewing a series of families affected by accidental injuries involving only-children.