{"id":13142,"date":"2019-09-23T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13142"},"modified":"2019-09-22T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T20:38:11","slug":"one-child-nation-2019-nanfu-wang-jialing-zhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13142","title":{"rendered":"One Child Nation (2019 Nanfu Wang &#038; Jialing Zhang)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nanfu explores Chinese policy through the personal histories of her own family and neighbors, then expands to the country&#8217;s legacy of international adoption and a quest to trace adopted kids to their birth parents.  As the country&#8217;s present-day propaganda shifts towards telling people that the perfect number of children to have is two, Nanfu tries to get people who lived through the previous era &#8211; parents who abandoned newborn children to die in the marketplace, party official abortionists, local government leaders who tore down the homes of residents who disobeyed the policy, families who made a business of selling abandoned babies to adoption agencies only to be imprisoned for human trafficking &#8211; to denounce the policy.  But after decades of indoctrination, she manages to get one person to say it was a good idea, &#8220;but they took it too far.&#8221;  Feels like too massive of an issue (and a country) for a single doc to cover, but the way she weaves the politics through her family&#8217;s own stories and memories makes it work beautifully &#8211; one of the best of this year&#8217;s T\/F docs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanfu explores Chinese policy through the personal histories of her own family and neighbors, then expands to the country&#8217;s legacy of international adoption and a quest to trace adopted kids to their birth parents. As the country&#8217;s present-day propaganda shifts towards telling people that the perfect number of children to have is two, Nanfu tries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,200,2245],"class_list":["post-13142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-china","tag-true-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13165,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142\/revisions\/13165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}