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<\/a>Fuxian Yi, a medical researcher and father of three who now lives in the United States, said the publication of his book on the mainland was a proud moment.\nFuxian Yi, a medical researcher and father of three who now lives in the United States, said the publication of his book on the mainland was a proud moment.Credit Courtesy of Fuxian Yi
\nIn just six years, Fuxian Yi\u2019s book pleading for an end to the \u201cone child\u201d policy went from banned to promoted by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n
The book, \u201cBig Country With an Empty Nest,\u201d a critical look at China\u2019s family-planning policy, was published in Hong Kong in 2007 and promptly banned on the Chinese mainland. But in 2013, a new edition was released by China Development Press, a publisher under the Development Research Center of the Chinese State Council.<\/p>\n
Publication of his book on the mainland was a proud moment for Dr. Yi, 46, a medical researcher and father of three who now lives in the United States and says of himself: \u201cI grew up in a big family of seven in the countryside of western Hunan Province. I like big families.\u201d<\/p>\n
For years, Dr. Yi said, he has received desperate messages, often on his Weibo account, from women who were unlawfully pregnant, asking what they should do. He said he usually advised them to have the child, despite the potentially severe consequences, like being fired from a state job, as happened to a police officer in Yunnan Province in September. He and his wife, who was eight months pregnant when the family-planning authorities warned them of the penalties they faced, had the child. Private companies stepped in to offer the man a new job.<\/p>\n
The shifting fortunes of Dr. Yi\u2019s book have tracked the evolution of China\u2019s family-planning policy, which for decades has been administered, sometimes harshly, by the National Family Planning Commission, now part of the National Health and Family Planning Commission. Its eventual release in the Chinese mainland, by a high-level state publisher, came the same year that China relaxed the restrictions on births, allowing couples where one partner was an only child to have two children.<\/p>\n
Still, it remains controversial, reflecting swirling interests in China\u2019s enormous bureaucracy that compete to shape policy.<\/p>\n
China Development Press had planned to publish an illustrated \u201ccoffee table\u201d version of the book in August, Dr. Yi said, to reach a wider audience, as the state now enters unfamiliar territory \u2014 encouraging people to have more children. The larger volume would be \u201ceasy to read and easy to understand,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n But publication has been delayed.<\/p>\n \u201cThe National Health and Family Planning Commission wrote a letter of protest to the State Council Development Research Center saying it was a bad book and told them off them for publishing it,\u201d Dr. Yi said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the Development Research Center did not ban my book, just asked me to wait for a while,\u201d he said. \u201cI have been waiting for three months. I think my book can be published soon.\u201d<\/p>\n China Development Press confirmed that publication had been delayed since August.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had planned to publish an illustrated version of the book \u2018Empty Nest\u2019 this August but decided to delay the plan because the publishing house wanted to further refine it and Mr. Yi also wanted to update relevant content after the two-child policy was announced,\u201d said a spokesman, who declined to give his name. \u201cThe publishing house has not pinned down a schedule for publication of the illustrated edition.\u201d<\/p>\n The spokesman did not answer a question as to whether the publisher had come under pressure not to publish the book.<\/p>\n The National Health and Family Planning Commission did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n The book examines \u201cthe historical background of China\u2019s family-planning policy; its serious consequences such as the pension crisis, bachelor crisis, human-rights catastrophe; and present prosperity and future economic downturn,\u201d Dr. Yi said. By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW NOVEMBER 4, 2015 … Continue reading <\/a>An edition of “Big Country With an Empty Nest” that has not yet been released.<\/p>\n
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