Chinese winner of Nobel Prize for literature opposes their one child per family rule

He opposes it from personal experience.

Nobel Prize and One Child Policy

The latest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan, is a Chinese author whose “popular, sprawling, bawdy tales bring to life rural China”.

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    Mo is also a critic of the one-child policy in China who can speak from personal experience.  His             most recent work, Wa, highlights the reality of coercive family planning/population control in           China.It tells the story of a rural gynaecologist who delivers babies and also performs abortions in     enforcing the one-child policy.  In 2010, Mo discussed in an interview his own experiences of forcing     his wife to abort their second child:

“‘I personally believe the one-child policy is a bad policy. If there were no one-child policy, I would have two or three children.’

‘When I was serving in the army, I was promoted to the rank of officer,’ said Mo Yan. ‘There was another officer in the army who lost his rank…because he had a second child. I was afraid I would receive the same punishment, so I chose not to have another child. If it were not for my own selfish ambition, I would have let my wife have a second or even a third baby. I used a very high-sounding rationale to convince her we needed to abort the baby: we had to follow the Party’s policy and nation’s policy. This has become an eternal scar in the deepest part of my heart...It became a big shadow in my heart.’"