1980s China Parents and daughter on the boat photos of real life
1980s China Parents and daughter on the boat photos of real life

Anthropology’s Lihong Shi writes about her research on parental grief in China

China’s ‘one-child policy’ left at least 1 million bereaved parents childless and alone in old age, with no one to take care of them

The Conversation: Lihong Shi, associate professor of anthropology, wrote about Chinese parents who lost their one child born under the country’s former one-child policy, which was enforced between 1980 and 2015.