China's highly anticipated and much-delayed census finally arrived. And it is making China's officials nervous because it shows a definite downward trend for its population growth. In fact, China's recently announced that families can have three kids, which is a step up from two kids, which was a step up from only one child, which was China's policy from about 1979 to 2015.  China's population decline will affect everything - its pension and housing systems to its geopolitical relations with Europe and the U.S.  In this episode, we spoke with Professor Wang, who shared the brutal history of China's one-child policy and drew perspective for us... for what the future may look like. 

Mr. Feng Wang is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine (academic homepage). He has research interests in contemporary Chinese society and comparative demographic processes and social inequality in state socialism, and his work is frequently cited in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other prominent journals.

I hope you enjoy this episode and gain some perspective about China's population control programs.  

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