Chun Jie: The Next Generation – China Rants

www.lostlaowai.com — Here's a post I jotted down yesterday on LLW about some thoughts I've been having about what the one-child policy means for the current and next generations of Chinese and how they celebrate Spring Festival. 春节快乐 HHRers.

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nstanosheck 1 year 51 weeks ago

Great article Ryan, and congrats. You, Mark, and I are all in the same position here with some little Tigers on the way. :-)

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