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From one of globe literature’s many brave sounds, a book concerning the human price of China’s one-child policy through the lens of one rural household on the work from its reach A long way away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is just a huge rural hinterland, where life goes on muchas it's for decades, with one remarkable distinction: “normal” parents are allowed by their state to possess merely a single child. The Black Path may be the tale of 1 such “normal” family—Meili, a peasant girl; her spouse, Kongzi, a town schoolteacher; and their child, Nannan. Kongzi is, in accordance with family fantasy, an immediate lineal descendant of Confucius, and he's haunted by the vital to keep on the family name by having a boy. And therefore Meili becomes pregnant again without express authorization, and local family planning authorities start a brand new wave of crackdowns when, the family makes the decision to depart its town and lay out on the tiny, shabby houseboat down the Yangtze River.