Nanfu Wang: What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy
Nanfu Wang: Grandir en Chine sous la politique de l'enfant unique
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to be the pillar of the family.
its one-child policy.
sa politique de l'enfant unique.
and ordered my mom to be sterilized.
à ma mère d'être stérilisée.
to carry on the family name.
pour perpétuer notre nom.
to have a second child,
autorisés à avoir un second enfant,
from one-child families.
une certaine honte
for having two children.
en ayant deux enfants.
and guilt came from.
de honte et de culpabilité.
I had my own first child.
j'ai eu mon premier enfant.
that ever happened in my life.
qui est arrivée dans ma vie.
on my own childhood,
nouvelle sur ma propre enfance,
my memories of early life in China.
les souvenirs de ma jeunesse en Chine.
for a permission from the government
au gouvernement la permission
who lived under the one-child policy.
sous la politique d'enfant unique.
a documentary about it.
un documentaire sur le sujet.
all of the babies born in my village,
tous les bébés de mon village,
when I interviewed her.
quand je l'ai interviewée.
you delivered throughout your career?"
vous avez vu naître ? »
le nombre d'accouchements.
and sterilizations.
et stérilisations forcés.
would survive an abortion,
survivait à l'avortement,
after delivering it.
après l'avoir fait naître.
ses mains tremblaient
of perpetrators and victims.
histoire de bourreaux et de victimes.
with the consequences.
les conséquences.
my interview with the midwife,
de la sage-femme,
with elaborate homemade flags.
de drapeaux faits à la main.
of a baby on it.
la photo d'un bébé collée dessus.
that were sent by families
envoyés par les familles
their infertility problems.
leurs problèmes de stérilité.
qu'elle en avait eu assez
and sterilizations --
et des stérilisations -
was to help families have babies.
d'aider les familles à avoir des enfants.
de l'enfant unique,
families have babies,
les familles à avoir des enfants,
what she did in the past.
ce qu'elle avait fait dans le passé.
she, too, was a victim of the policy.
une victime de cette politique.
and necessary for China's survival.
et nécessaire à la survie de la Chine.
was right for her country.
juste pour son pays -
ce message était fort.
around myself when I grew up.
sur les boites d'allumettes,
the one-child policy
de l'enfant unique était omniprésente.
will be arrested.]
sera arrêté.]
pour ceux qui auraient voulu désobéir.
against disobeying it.
enfoncé dans nos esprits
feeling embarrassed
can be influenced by the propaganda,
leur cœur et leur esprit
to make sacrifices for the greater good
de se sacrifier pour une grande cause
very dark and tragic.
de sombre et de tragique.
where this happens.
où cela arrive.
where propaganda isn't present.
more open and free than China,
plus ouvertes et plus libres que la Chine,
what propaganda looks like.
de déceler la propagande.
without our knowledge.
sans qu'on s'en rende compte.
to accepting propaganda as truth,
d'accepter la propagande comme une vérité,
replaces the truth
remplace la vérité
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Nanfu Wang - Documentary filmmakerNanfu Wang uncovers untold stories about human rights in China.
Why you should listen
Nanfu Wang's Peabody Award-winning documentary, Hooligan Sparrow -- which follows maverick activist Ye Haiyan as she faces government surveillance and harassment after advocating for sexually abused schoolgirls -- was shortlisted for a 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. She also directed and produced I Am Another You, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and her latest film, One Child Nation, which explores the history of China's birth policy and its profound effects on generations of Chinese parents and children. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
Originally from a remote village in China, Wang overcame poverty and a lack of access to formal education en route to earning three master's degrees from Shanghai University, Ohio University and New York University. She teaches editing at the School of Visual Arts as well as cinematography at New York University.
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