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Nanfu Wang: What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy (2019x171)

Air date: Jul 31, 2019

China's one-child policy ended in 2015, but we're just beginning to understand what it was like to live under the program, says TED Fellow and documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang. With footage from her film "One Child Nation," she shares untold stories that reveal the policy's complex consequences and expose the creeping power of propaganda.