The trauma that changed China. The hell of women and the generation of only children

Introduced in the late 1970s, the one-child policy was a extremist experimentation that shaped Chinese society for decades, leaving deep emotional and demographic marks. Sinologist Veronika Truszczynska points out that the brutality of this campaign, which included forced abortions and sterilizations, was the consequence of government panic based on faulty demographic projections.