Review: 'One Child Nation' is a powerful, painful look at impact of China's one-child policy
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Aug 09, 2019
4 minutes
One of the first things we see in "One Child Nation" is a close-up of a jar that, after a few moments, reveals itself to be holding a carefully preserved fetus. The image is a stark and disquieting piece of evidence, a remnant of one of the hundreds of thousands of pregnancies that were terminated by order of the Chinese government under its infamous one-child policy. The visuals might give you pause for any number of reasons, especially if you've seen similar (though often bloodier) images in materials commonly distributed by American anti-abortion groups. But Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, the directors of this disturbing, infuriating
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