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Yangming Liu
English 1020-T
Ms. Kent
Mar 1. 2016
Unit 2Assignment: Complex Source Evaluation
Source 1:
Potts, Malcolm. China's One Child Policy. BMJ: British Medical Journal 333.7564
(2006): 361362. Web. Feb 28, 2016.
In this article, Malcolm describes the Chinese social context over the past 30
years. It explains what is the one-child policy and why Chinese government should
carry out this policy. At the same time, the author expresses the effects of one-child
policy to China, including advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage of article is that it not just blindly emphasizes the issues by onechild policy, but also objectively states the important and benefit of this policy. The
article also made an assumption that if China doesnt implement this policy whether
achieves the same result. And then, the article provides a comparison between with
China and some countries that having the large populations but not control
populations growth.
My purpose, to choose this source, is to let my readers know what the one child
policy is. And then, I want to express although the one child policy has brought a lot
of problems, this policy is a necessary national fundamental policy to China. The
government must enact this policy to control population for a long time.
Source 2:
Song, Yu. "Losing An Only Child: The One-Child Policy And Elderly Care In China."
Reproductive Health Matters 22.43 (2014): 113-124. Web. 28 Feb. 2016.

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In this article, Song focus on Shi Du Lao Ren, which is a Chinese word
translated literally as lost only child old man. In the past 30 years, one-child policy
has reduced chinas population growth within a short period of time. However, it also
led to a new social issue. Because of the one-child policy, each parents only has one
child, if they lost their only one child, they will suffer mentally and physically, and
sometimes will face social stigma.
The strength of the article is to provide many sources and dates showing the pain
and difficult of losing only-child old man. The article also draws upon some
qualitative studies and twelve cases reported by the Chinese media in 2012 and 2013,
the government exists policies for supporting the parents who have lost their only
child.
This article is helpful to me. I can talk about because of the one-child policy
cause old parents losing their only child issue. I can represent their painful
experiences to illustrate a potential issue to individual family caused by one-child
policy.

Source 3:
Scutti, Susan. "One-Child Policy Is One Big Problem For China." Newsweek Global
162.4 (2014): 131-137. Web. 28 Feb. 2016.
In this article, Scutti attempt to show a serious of social issues that because the
one-child policy caused the imbalance of the proportion of male and female. Because
of Chinese cultural tradition, more Chinese families hope to give birth a boy. The
article also mentioned that males is the very important productivity and labor in rural
area, so the government allows the rural families would birth the second child if the
first kid is a girl or disable child. As a result, a lot of people would identify the sex of

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the fetus by ultrasound. If it is a girl, the child is likely to had artificial abortion.
The strength of this article is show because of the influence of one child policy
and son preference in China, caused China's sex ratio imbalance that male more than
female. The weakness of the article is excessively exaggerated the ultra behaviors of
son preference. Let reader mistakenly believe that these special cases are the common
phenomenon in China.
This article will help me to discuss the one child policy have brought a big
problem to China. I can use the examples in the article to reveal a series of issues
about gender imbalance, selective abortion and ultrasound scans to illegally check
their unborn baby's sex.

Source 4:
Mooney, Paul. "Campus Life Proves Difficult for China's 'Little Emperors'."
Chronicle Of Higher Education 52, no. 14 (November 25, 2005): A46-A49.Web.
1 Mar. 2016.
In this article, Paul attempts to focus on the influences of the one child policy on
Chinese college students, especially college students committed suicide. Each couples
can only have one child, and the young parents and grandpa are spoiling the child too
much, so the spoiled children are called the Little Emperor in China. Parents and
grandpa try to provide the best conditions for their child, which give the best foods,
toys, clothes and anything to their children. The university is a middle area from
family to society. When these children leave the comfortable home to enter campus
and society, they will face appalling living conditions, which unheated dormitories,
poor food, inadequate washing facilities on campus. As a result, Chinese students
psychological problems and suicide are on the rise. It has become a serious social

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issue.
The strength of the article is that explains because of this policy some children
like flowers in the greenhouse. They cant adapt to the harsh social environment. The
article uses a lot of real cases. It shows the one child policy how to affect children.
The article analyses the reason why modern Chinese students psychological problems
have become a big issue.
My purpose of choosing this source is to discuss that the children who only one in
the family would be influenced in their growth process by the one-child policy.
Through they will meet difficulties, to prove the one-child policy need to be
improved.

Source 5:
Cheng, Tsung O. "Editorial: China's little emperors: Medical consequences of China's
one-child policy." International Journal Of Cardiology 168, (October 15, 2013):
5121-5125. Web. 1 Mar. 2016.
The article introduces the history of Chinas one-child policy. And then, the
article discussed the Chinese one-child policy prevalence rate of Chinese whether
there is effect of obesity in children. Because every family just has only one child, the
parents want to provide the best nutrition for their children. But it caused the problem
of obesity for children.
The article not only introduces the childrens obesity problem in China, but also
discusses that obesity can lead to other medical consequences. At the same time, the
article presents Chinas childhood obesity may get socioeconomic implications to
Chinese society. This article also gives the suggestions to reconsider the one-child
policy to curtail childhood obesity.

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This article can help me to argue that the one-child policy brought the health
problems. I want to certify although the Chinese government should be applauded for
enacting the one-child policy to control population during the baby boom in the last
century, it should be reconsidered this unpopular policy with its unexpected dire
medical issues, especially cardiovascular.