Nanfu Wang: What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy
نانفو وانغ: كيف يبدو الحال أن تترعرع في ظل سياسة الطفل الواحد فى الصين
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to be the pillar of the family.
its one-child policy.
إنجاب طفل واحد
and ordered my mom to be sterilized.
بقطع الخلف
to carry on the family name.
يحمل اسم العائلة
to have a second child,
ثانٍ
from one-child families.
for having two children.
بحصولها على طفلين
and guilt came from.
I had my own first child.
that ever happened in my life.
on my own childhood,
my memories of early life in China.
for a permission from the government
إذن من الحكومة
who lived under the one-child policy.
عائلة بطفل واحد
a documentary about it.
all of the babies born in my village,
جميع الأطفال الذين ولدوا في قريتي
when I interviewed her.
you delivered throughout your career?"
مهنتك؟
and sterilizations.
-قطع خلف-
would survive an abortion,
after delivering it.
of perpetrators and victims.
عن الجناة والضحايا
with the consequences.
مع العواقب.
my interview with the midwife,
with elaborate homemade flags.
تم صنعها في المنزل
of a baby on it.
that were sent by families
their infertility problems.
and sterilizations --
was to help families have babies.
لمساعدة العائلات في الحصول على أطفال
families have babies,
الحصول على أطفال
what she did in the past.
she, too, was a victim of the policy.
من ضحايا السياسة
and necessary for China's survival.
was right for her country.
around myself when I grew up.
the one-child policy
طفل واحد
will be arrested.]
سيعتقل
against disobeying it.
feeling embarrassed
can be influenced by the propaganda,
to make sacrifices for the greater good
الجميع
very dark and tragic.
where this happens.
هذا
where propaganda isn't present.
الدعايات الكاذبة المغرضة
more open and free than China,
منفتحة أكثر من الصين
what propaganda looks like.
كنشرة الأخبار
without our knowledge.
to accepting propaganda as truth,
أن يصدق الدعايات كحقيقة
replaces the truth
لا يمكن أن
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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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