. >> mei fong, welcome to afterwards. you just published her first book. i enjoyed it immensely ended at the subject of a lot of discussion these days among china. the book is called tran 11 -- "one child." first i think it would be helpful to find for people what we are talking about. so what is china's one child policy? >> one child policy is really a misnomer. it is just a name that we use to describe a set of rules and illustrations that china has placed to regulate the population. theoretically you could more likely call it 1.5 child for a long time and of course the two child policy. in reality with regulations. >> not one not particularly, but a basket of these. when did it happen? when did it begin? >> 1979, 1980 when the communist party supposedly took members saying we are raising everybody to move to one child family. it was really telling. >> people sometimes imagine the policy that would've gone into effect under chairman mao, but it went to affect under xiaoping. what was going on at the time it was so important people imagine they needed the

. >> mei fong, welcome to "after words." you published your first book and i end joyed immensely. it's the subject of a lot of discussion among the analysts. the book is one child at the story of china's most radical experiment and in a minute we will talk about why you chose the subject and how you went about answering some of the questions on your mind but first it would be helpful to define what it is we are talking about so what is china's one child policy? >> guest: the one child policy is a bit of a misnomer. it's just a name that we use to describe a set of rules and restrictions china has placed to regulate the population and the size of the family. theoretically you could collect 1.5 child for a long time and now of course they moved it to a two child policy. but it's a lot of regulations. >> so it's not one law but a sort of basket of policies. when did it happen and go into effect, when the fact, when did it begin black >> guest: some people see 1979 and 1980. i see 1980 when the communist party sent out a letter saying we are advising everyone to move to a one child fa

and mei fong talks about the effects of china's recently discontinued one-child policy. >> the problem is there is no input from economist or psychologist. so issues on how human behavior can shape a plan. it is not rocket science to think a nation so in love with son is restricted to one child and they will have more sons and at one point you will have more men than women. >> "after words" airs every sunday at 9 and 10 p.m. eastern. you can watch previous programs online at booktv.org. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. >> and this is the senior republican on the federal communication commission and he is our guest this week on the "the communicators." commissioner, welcome back. it is an election year. can we suggest an active docket in the election year? >> you would have to ask fcc leadership but i will say i will be pursuing a partisan initiative to deliver on what i consider to be the public interest. that clouincludes broadband deployment and making sure every american has

. ♪ ♪ >> host: mei fong welcome. just published her first book it is the subject of long debate your book is called "one child" the story of china's most radical expeeriment" we will talk like you chose the subject tonight answer the questions but first it is helpful to define for people what we are talking about. what is the one child policy? >> it is a misnomer of we use to set up a set of rules are restrictions -- restrictions china placed. you could call it 1.five so with a lot of regulations stick like a basket of policies? when did that go into effect >> with a 1979 but i seek the 1980 with a communist party we are inviting everybody to move to though one child family. civics of people imagine this is the palaces -- policy now but it actually went under effect before. why did they think they needed this? that was a cultural revolution and. and the population was growing with a significant worry that the population wed overwhelm and therefore to do something spinach you compare though one child policy to a crash

. >> host: mei fong, thank you for talking to us about "one child," and congratulations on the. >> .. of modern conservatism. in this book she examines the labor disputes and depression era california. she shows how this set of events caused business leaders at the time to rethink their relationship to american politics. olmsted finds a depression era california, strong arm policies against farmworkers that most of the conservative movement. she chair of uc davis' history department and historian of anti- communism. she is the author of several books in including challenging the secret government and real enemies. eric rauchway has written "the money makers". how roosevelt and keynes ended the depression, defeated ashes them. he makes clear that fdr regarded his fight against economic depression and his fight against fascism to be in in distinction bowl. monetary policy should be central to our understanding of the roosevelt understanding, depression and war. eric rauchway is the author of numerous works on the progressive and new deal era's. he has working for the american prospect,

. >> host: mei fong, thank you for talking to us about "one child," and congratulations on the. >> ..

. >> and on this three-day weekend of booktv on "after words," pulitzer prize-winning journalist mei fong talks about china's recently discontinued one-child policy. also this weekend, david bernstein argues the obama administration has undermined the constitution. courtney young takes a look at the politics of breast-feeding, and we visit the literary sites of hartford, connecticut. representative john lewis recalls his part in the civil rights movement. university of wisconsin professor william p. jones remembers the march on washington, and douglas wilder, the first african-american to be elected as governor, talks about his life and political career. for a complete television schedule, visit booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours -- and this weekend even more hours of nonfiction books and authors -- television for serious readers. >> of this year's presidential candidates have written books to introduce themselves to voters and promote their views. here's a look at some. in his newest book, "reply all," jeb bush catalogs his e-mail correspondence during his time as florida governor. presidentia

and at 10, mei fong sits down for booktv's "after words" program to talk about china's recently discontinued one-child policy. and directly following "after words" at 11, david bernstein argues that the obama administration has undermined the constitution. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> kris paranto and mark geist were members of the annex security team stationed in benghazi, libya, on september 11, 2012. booktv interviewed the two men about their book, "13 hours," which has been made into a movie being released this weekend. >> what was the security threat at that time? >> well, benghazi itself was a lawless city. i mean, it was part of a country that had a government, but the only place that government had any effective control was in tripoli. outside of the greater tripoli area, it didn't have any control whatsoever. when i first got there, you never even saw police cars around. everything was controlled by the militia. about 15 days before 9/11 when the attack happened, you started seeing some police cars, but even the policemen would answer to the militias. they worked

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