Jaime Hoerricks, PhD

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1,523 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Jul

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Reset Your Thinking Podcast · Book: Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

The text points out that over three and a half decades, China conducted nearly as many abortions as the entire present population of the United States. voice-verified

Yes, the worst year to be born. voice-verified

The contrast between Liu and Yao is devastating. voice-verified

Let's start with Liu. voice-verified

She is born in 1949, which is the year Mao founded the People's Republic. voice-verified

Right, which meant there were no tools to harvest crops. voice-verified

Then she turns 18, ready for higher education. voice-verified

But Mao launches the Cultural Revolution. voice-verified

The state shuts down the universities and sends the youth to the countryside to purge ideological enemies. voice-verified

So her opportunity for education is just erased. voice-verified

Then she hits 30 and decides to have a child, only to immediately hit the one child policy. voice-verified

Say she manages to have that child. voice-verified

When her kid is twenty, it's nineteen eighty nine. voice-verified

Tannan Men Square. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

The kid goes to protest in Tannenman Square, and the state sends in the army to clear the square with tanks. voice-verified

It really is. voice-verified

Yao's trajectory is completely different. voice-verified

He has no real memory of the famine because he was too young. voice-verified

He turns eighteen right after Mao dies, just as Deng Xiaoping reopens the universities. voice-verified

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