Actually, I'm not happy.

Author: Liu Yi
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The "Declaration of Only-Children" from the 1980s emerges: I am an ordinary girl without siblings, and I fear ordinarycy and loneliness. I am like a lonely speck of dust, with no one caring about my feelings. The book is written with a fluent style and sincere emotions, yet it sparkles with moments of reflection throughout. From the perspective of an only-child's personal experience, it directly examines and critiques China's one-child policy education through the first-person narrative style, which is rarely seen in contemporary youth literature. For many only-children born in the 1980s, it can be seen as a silent protest against society in the style of a "carriage letter," calling out to parents, teachers, and society as a warning...