📰 Birdsong and stolen cherries: Lockdown life in Shanghai
GZERO Media asked Shen Yang to share her personal experience during the Shanghai lockdown in a lively video interview.
📰 “Le Non Volute”
“More Than One Child” was featured in “Il Foglio”, one of the main national newspapers in Italy, with a lively article by writer, musician and filmmaker Vittorio Bongiorno.
📰 My Crime, Being Born Illegal: Shen Yang in Conversation with Nicky Harman
PEN Transmissions is English PEN’s magazine for international and translated voices. In this article Shen Yang speaks to Nicky Harman about the One Child policy, “excess-birth daughters”, and her memoir, “More Than One Child”.
📰 ‘Shen Yang does not legally exist.’ Nicky Harman reflects on a memoir by a victim of China’s One-Child Policy, and its unexpected impact on readers.
In this short article for Asian Books Blog, Nicky Harman reflects on the unexpected impact of “More Than One Child” on both western and Chinese readers and some of their reactions to the story.
📰 Telling the Stories of China’s “Illegal Children”: Shen Yang and Roseann Lake in Conversation
In addition to forcing millions of excess birth children into hiding, the One Child Policy also resulted in a huge gender imbalance that eventually resulted in the “Leftover Women” phenomenon. In this dual interview with Roseann Lake, author of “Leftover in China”, we discuss about the consequences of the policy, how our books came about and much more.
📰 Going Places: The International Authors to Read This Summer
More Than One Child has been featured in The Guardian summer reading picks! A huge thank you to Vincent Ni for choosing my story and interviewing me.