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Forbidden Children: China's One-Child Policy

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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What's Going to Happen With These Kwangun?

By the mid 20 twenties, china will be adding ten million elders to its population each year. The scale of the problem isn't dented in human history so we don't really know what the next century is going to hold for the men of china. Some cultural anthropologists have made some predictions, guessing that a generation of idle men will result in a rise in crime or even a more aggressive warlike national character.

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