Books, Arts & Manners: Mother Dearest

A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight against China’s One-Child Policy, by Steven W. Mosher (Harcourt, Brace, 288 pp., $21.95)

THIS BOOK is not merely another in the recent spate of personal accounts, the best for some reason by women, that show the seamy side of life in the People’s Republic of China—a life that is virtually all seams once the authors have flipped over the shiny outer garment seen by visitors. This book is also the story of a thoroughly immoral woman, who is, if perhaps not wholly truthful, at least searingly candid. It tells of her struggle against a thoroughly immoral, consistently untruthful, and rarely candid state that aspires to be seamlessly totalitarian—and looks upon its citizens as a mass like a swarm of bees, not as individuals.

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A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight against China’s One-Child Policy, by Steven W. Mosher (Harcourt, Brace, 288 pp., $21.95)

THIS BOOK is not merely another in the recent spate of personal accounts, the best for some reason by women, that show the seamy side of life in the People’s Republic of China—a life that is virtually all seams once the authors have flipped over the shiny outer garment seen by visitors. This book is also the story of a thoroughly immoral woman, who is, if perhaps not wholly truthful, at least searingly candid. It tells of her struggle against a thoroughly immoral, consistently untruthful, and rarely candid state that aspires to be seamlessly totalitarian—and looks upon its citizens as a mass like a swarm of bees, not as individuals.