I have been reviewing, researching and studying the one-child policy since its inception in 1979. I have wanted for the last 15 years to tell the story of the one-child policy and make it come alive, to make western and Chinese readers outside mainland China understand this policy in all of its different aspects and all of its ramifications.
自一九七九年「一胎化」政策開始實施的時候，我就開始作研究，多少年來我一直希望把這個活生生的故事寫出來，好讓西方和中國讀者瞭解這個政策的的影響面。