An Excess Male

TitleAn Excess Male
Year for Search2017
AuthorsKing, Maggie Shen
Date Published2017
PublisherHarper Voyager
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsFemale author, Taiwanese author, US author
Annotation

The dystopia created by 2030 by the Chinese one-child policy combined with a preference for male children. There are now forty million unmarriageable men. The dystopia provides the background to the story of one such man. 

Holding Institutions

Public

Author Note

The female author was born in Taiwan and settled in the U.S. at age sixteen.

Full Text

2017 King, Maggie Shen. An Excess Male. New York: Harper Voyager. Public

The dystopia created by 2030 by the Chinese one-child policy combined with a preference for male children. There are now forty million unmarriageable men. The dystopia provides the background to the story of one such man. The female author was born in Taiwan and settled in the U.S. at age sixteen.