Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. One-child policy, two-child policy — whatever the demographic program, the C.C.P. continues to view women as the reproductive agents of the state, as instruments of implementation for its eugenic development agenda. As far back as 2007, it was trying to stigmatize women who remained single after the age of 27, calling them sheng nu, “leftover” women. Many Han women, for example, are pushing back against the government’s singles-shaming and its continued attempt at reproductive social engineering.

Source: New York Times February 20, 2018 19:51 UTC