I think Hui's article was written to persuade readers that do not have much background information about birth control issues in China. Hui gives a lot of information about the regulation and explains them in a simple way so that even those that have do not know or never heard about it can understand the situation just by reading his article. Hui expresses his opinion but does not really "fight" to persuage the readers. He rather gives a suggestion to the solution. I'm also assuming that the readers seem to be supportive as to how Hui does not use connotative language, nor does his tone sound strong to confrontate his readers. If his goal was to persuage the readers, I don't think he would'be suceeded because this article sounded more for an informative purpose although he did argue back and gave his opinion about it.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
17. I Was an Illegal Second Child in China
Ning Hui presented an article about birth control in China, which also affected his family specifically. Due to excessive population in the country of China, until just a few years ago they had a regulation that if each family had more than one child, they'd have to pay a fine. The fine would increase as more child would be born, and the author Hui was one of the children that was born illegally. His main point of the article was to point out the problem of the balance between men and women in China: "As I ponder the extent to which the government will guide my love life, I think about one huge effect of the policy: the plethora of male only-children that are my age." Men are the ones that recieves down the family name, but according to some research there are 24 million more men than women which means the majority of these men will die without a spouse to continue on their family's generation.
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