Table of Contents for Only Hope

Only Hope
Coming of Age Under China’s One-Child Policy
Vanessa L. Fong
Table of Contents for Only Hope

Table of Contents for Only Hope

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1.“The Next Few Months Will Determine Your Future”: Eight Teenagers’ Stories

2.Great Expectations: Singletons as the Vanguard of Modernization

3.Heavy is the Head of the “Little Emperor”: Pressure, Discipline, and Competition in the Stratification System

4.“Beat Me Now and I’ll Beat You When You’re Old”: Love, Filial Duty,s and Parental Investment in an Aging Population

5.“Spoiled”: First World Youth in the Third World

Conclusion: Making a Road to the First World

Appendix: biographical Details of People Quoted or Mentioned in this Book

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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