Chinese winner of Nobel Prize for literature opposes their one child per family rule

He opposes it from personal experience.

Nobel Prize and One Child Policy

The latest winner
of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan, is a Chinese author whose
“popular, sprawling, bawdy tales bring to life rural China”.

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    Mo is also a critic of the one-child policy in China who can speak from personal experience.  His             most recent work, Wa,
highlights the reality of coercive family planning/population control
in           China.It tells the story of a rural gynaecologist who delivers
babies and also performs abortions in     enforcing the one-child policy. 
In 2010, Mo discussed in an interview his own experiences of forcing     his wife to abort their second child:

“‘I
personally believe the one-child policy is a bad policy. If there were
no one-child policy, I would have two or three children.’

‘When
I was serving in the army, I was promoted to the rank of officer,’ said
Mo Yan. ‘There was another officer in the army who lost his
rank…because he had a second child. I was afraid I would receive the
same punishment, so I chose not to have another child. If it were not
for my own selfish ambition, I would have let my wife have a second or
even a third baby. I used a very high-sounding rationale to convince her
we needed to abort the baby: we had to follow the Party’s policy and
nation’s policy. This has become an eternal scar in the deepest part of
my heart…It became a big shadow in my heart.’"


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