num_pages: 335
description: Social scientist and China expert Mosher relates the story of Chi An, a former population-control worker in China, whose own second pregnancy became the catalyst for her fight to stay in the U.S. "A searing and candid look at a place where the state brutally intrudes into the most intimate parts of a woman's life."--Kirkus Reviews.
language: English
title: A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy
titlecomplete: A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy
genres: Social Issues, Memoir, Asia, Nonfiction, History, Historical, Sociology, China, Politics, Biography
ratings_count: 352
publisher: Perennial