Buy Me the Sky

One of China's most controversial policies has been its attempt to control population growth by restricting most parents – in practice, the majority of urban parents and some rural ones – to a single child. This resulting predominance of "only children" has had significant consequences for Chinese society.

Buy Me The Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations is the latest book from Xinran, the London-based Chinese author of several best-selling titles exploring aspects of her homeland, including The Good Women of China, Sky Burial, and Miss Chopsticks. In this newly-released book, she uses biographies and anecdotes supplied by Chinese only children, all now adults, to explore the impact of the one-child policy.