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Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower by Roseann Lake

5.0

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Delightfully easy to read, yet gracefully informative. We all know about the gender imbalance phenomenon in China (and few other countries tho by different causes) caused by the recently revoked one-child policy. This book discusses the reason behind it and the impacts it has caused to modern day society, especially socially and economically. Although written by a foreigner, I personally like how it doesn't point fingers or get biased, instead it goes through the culutral context of each action quite exhaustively. It is also pretty funny, whether intentional or not,