What it was like to grow up under China's one...

Jessica Irwin is many things: a photographer, artist, author, performer. She also happens to be nonverbal, born with cerebral palsy that affects the muscles she needs to talk. Speaking through a device that turns her typed words into speech, she gives a sharp, funny and urgent re ...  Show more

Urban planner James Rojas has led hundreds of workshops where participants creatively design their ideal communities with small objects — and he's noticed that people of every age, income and background build strikingly similar places. Through play and storytelling, he shows how ...  Show more

China’s transformation into an economic powerhouse has come at a cost to its children, under enormous pressure to succeed. Now the country is wondering if the price has been too high. Reporter Poppy Sebag-Montefiore, producer Claudia Williams, sound design by Karla Patella.<hr>

在一胎政策年代长大的中国孩子，从小得到家中所有的资源，看似占尽了便宜，但步入社会以后，面对与过去完全不同的竞争坏境，他们又有什么不为人知的心声呢？Listen as two friends discuss the consequences of growing up under the one-child policy and how it affected people once they finally entered society. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/2905

China has recently changed its two-child policy and is now allowing families to have up to three children legally. It's a move aimed to combat the country's plunging birth rate, but what does this major shift in policy mean for China?This episode describes the loss of a child. Sa ...  Show more