“The one-child policy came at a time when the Chinese Communist Party leadership was trying to regain its political legitimacy after the Cultural Revolution, and the place that they found for legitimacy this time was economic development."
"There's this idea that real Chinese food or real Asian food is not junk food — that we eat only steamed, hand-made traditional foods, passed down by mother, but a lot of Asian moms have a job. The reason we go to junk food is the same as everyone else."