An excess male

Maggie Shen King

earliest edition we have, 2017 HarperCollins Publishers, 2017

China's one-child policy and its cultural preference for male heirs have created a society overrun by forty million unmarriageable men. By the year 2030, more than 25 percent of men in their late thirties will not have a family of their own. An Excess Male is the story of one such leftover man's quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritarian meas...

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Excess Male edition · 2017 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780062662576
An Excess Male audiobook · 2017 · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio · 1 pages · 9781538454077
An excess male edition · 2017 · 406 pages · 9780062662552

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