The difference between A Mother's Ordeal and other books like Wild Swans or Life and Death in Shanghai is that A Mother's Ordeal describes life in China as it is now. The one-child policy is continuing in China. When you read the book, you are reading life in China, things happening right now. Cheng Nien, for example, wrote about her experiences in the 50s and 60s during the Cultural Revolution.
舉例而言，我的書和鄭念的＜上海生與死＞最大的不同在於，我描述的是中國的現況，「一胎化」政策仍然在施行當中，所以當讀者看書的時候，看到的是現實中國的生活；鄭念描述的是她在五、六十年代「文化大革命」的經歷。