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Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China’s One-Child Policyreviewed by Vilma Seeberg — 2006 Title: Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China’s One-Child Policy Author(s): Vanessa L. Fong Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA ISBN: 0804749612, Pages: 242, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com Only Hope: Coming of Age Under Chinas One-Child Policy by Vanessa L. Fong is a read I could hardly put down. Vanessa Fong has put her finger on a subject of much popular and scholarly interest. How are the only children and their families faring under the Chinese one-child policy? The policy has often been described as a draconian, huge-scale experiment in social engineering mandated by a central government. Dire consequences in population imbalances have been predicted. Fong takes a close-up look at 31 families and surveys 2,273 students in three schools over 27 months. The depth of her insight and breadth of knowledge elevate this work to a place of importance that far exceeds its title and stated purpose. The work speaks to China scholars, social scientists, modernization scholars, and international educators, but also to a wide swath of the general public. The author writes with ease, the stories... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Vilma Seeberg
Kent State University E-mail Author VILMA SEEBERG is Associate Professor for International/Intercultural Education at Kent State University. She has published on various aspects of Chinese education, including The rhetoric and reality of mass education in Mao's China published by The Edwin Mellen Press in 2000, the second of two books on basic education in China. Her most recent manuscript “Tibetan girls’ education: Challenging prevailing theory” will be published in a forthcoming book titled China’s educational inequality: Schooling in a market economy. Her intellectual interests include social theory, Chinese studies, girls’ education, and development education. Her work draws from the fields of comparative education, China studies, sociology, anthropology, and political science. She serves on boards of the Comparative and International Education Society and the American Association of University Women.
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