🍼 China's birthrate crisis and the business of single women's fertility | Following the Yuan

On the missing piece in China's birthrate narrative

I was pregnant.

The day I took the test, I was in a northern Chinese city for a friend’s wedding and had been paranoid about a late period for days. I felt like I could see signs everywhere — from watching Leah Dou as a pregnant teenager in The Eleventh Chapter, to meeting Songzi Niangniang, the fertility goddess, once I entered a temple in Pingyao. I k…