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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