China’s one-child policy was implemented in 1980, restricting families to one child per couple in an effort to curb the country’s population growth rate. Until it officially ended on Jan. 1, 2016, this policy was enforced at the provincial level through a variety of measures, including contraception, fines, sanctions, intimidation and coercion, and abortion and […]
Author Archives: Lian Parsons-Thomason
Lian Parsons-Thomason is a Boston-based writer and journalist. She has served as New England chapter president for the Asian American Journalists Association since 2022. Her bylines can be found in Boston Art Review, the Harvard Gazette, Technical.ly Media, iPondr and more. She currently works at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education as a digital content producer.