Maggie Shen King is a Taiwanese-American author living in the San Francisco Bay area whose debut novel An Excess Male has garnered attention from audiences and critics for its imaginative take on the long term effects of the Chinese One Child policy. The following is an interview with King conducted over email with New Bloom writer Garrett Dee...
The latest sign of increasing restrictions on media in Xi Jinping’s China would appear to be the recent ban on depictions of homosexuality on television, along with depictions of underage relationships, one night stands, and extramarital affairs. Why is there such interest in regulating sexuality in contemporary China?...
With the end of one child policy, we might note the slide of China into sociological phenomena which we see in countries which have followed the East Asian developmental model of capitalism...