Matthew Carey Emmy-nominated filmmaker Nanfu Wang is unusual for someone of her generation in China—she’s got a sibling. She was born in 1985 in the midst of China’s one child policy, which limited women to having a single baby.
The only exception was for people in rural areas, like Wang’s parents, who were permitted to have a second child so long as they waited five years between having them.In her film One Child Nation, a contender in the prestigious Emmy category of Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, Wang describes how she felt attending middle school in the nearest city, surrounded by kids with no siblings. “Whenever someone found out that I had a brother, I felt embarrassed,” she recalls, “as if our family had done something.
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