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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.00,0:00:02.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Nanfu.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.36,0:00:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Chinese, "nan" means "man."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.95,0:00:08.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And "fu" means "pillar."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.58,0:00:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My family had hoped for a boy,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.72,0:00:15.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who would grow up\Nto be the pillar of the family.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.69,0:00:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I turned out to be a girl,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.96,0:00:19.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they named me Nanfu anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.84,0:00:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.28,0:00:23.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born in 1985,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.74,0:00:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,six years before China announced\Nits one-child policy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.96,0:00:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right after I was born,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.23,0:00:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the local officials came\Nand ordered my mom to be sterilized.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.77,0:00:39.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My grandpa stood up to the officials,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.12,0:00:42.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he wanted a grandson\Nto carry on the family name.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.98,0:00:48.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eventually, my parents were allowed\Nto have a second child,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.18,0:00:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they had to wait for five years
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.27,0:00:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pay a substantial fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.64,0:00:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Growing up, my brother and I
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.56,0:00:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were surrounded by children\Nfrom one-child families.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.00,0:01:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember feeling a sense of shame
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.07,0:01:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I had a younger brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.07,0:01:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt like our family did something wrong\Nfor having two children.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.32,0:01:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the time, I didn't question
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.82,0:01:16.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where this sense of shame\Nand guilt came from.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.06,0:01:22.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A year and a half ago,\NI had my own first child.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.99,0:01:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the best thing\Nthat ever happened in my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.54,0:01:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Becoming a mother
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.86,0:01:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gave me a totally new perspective\Non my own childhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.97,0:01:36.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it brought back\Nmy memories of early life in China.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.49,0:01:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the past three decades,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.64,0:01:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everyone in my family had to apply\Nfor a permission from the government
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.39,0:01:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a child.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.37,0:01:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wondered
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.74,0:01:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it was like for people\Nwho lived under the one-child policy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.36,0:01:55.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I decided to make\Na documentary about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.96,0:01:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the people I interviewed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.89,0:02:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the midwife who delivered\Nall of the babies born in my village,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.08,0:02:05.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.46,0:02:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was 84 years old\Nwhen I interviewed her.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.29,0:02:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked her,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.04,0:02:15.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Do you remember how many babies\Nyou delivered throughout your career?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.40,0:02:18.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She didn't have a number for deliveries.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.56,0:02:22.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said she had performed
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.84,0:02:27.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,60,000 forced abortions\Nand sterilizations.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.86,0:02:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, she said,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.19,0:02:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a late-term fetus\Nwould survive an abortion,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.30,0:02:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she would kill the baby\Nafter delivering it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.49,0:02:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She remembered how her hands would tremble
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.24,0:02:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as she did the work.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.82,0:02:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her story shocked me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.93,0:02:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I set out to make the film,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.16,0:02:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I expected it would be a simple story\Nof perpetrators and victims.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.61,0:02:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who carried out the policy
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.56,0:02:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people who are living\Nwith the consequences.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.70,0:02:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that wasn't what I saw.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.08,0:03:03.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I was finishing\Nmy interview with the midwife,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.31,0:03:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I noticed an area in her house
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.56,0:03:09.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was decorated\Nwith elaborate homemade flags.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.86,0:03:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And each flag has a picture\Nof a baby on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.16,0:03:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These were flags\Nthat were sent by families
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.32,0:03:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whom she helped treat\Ntheir infertility problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.66,0:03:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She explained that she had had enough
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.01,0:03:26.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of performing abortions\Nand sterilizations --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.97,0:03:31.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the only work she did now\Nwas to help families have babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.84,0:03:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said she was full of guilt
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.31,0:03:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for carrying out the one-child policy,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.23,0:03:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she hoped that by helping\Nfamilies have babies,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.49,0:03:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she could counteract\Nwhat she did in the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.03,0:03:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It became clear to me\Nshe, too, was a victim of the policy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.97,0:03:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every voice was telling her
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.69,0:03:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that what she did was right\Nand necessary for China's survival.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.11,0:04:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she did what she thought\Nwas right for her country.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.26,0:04:04.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know how strong that message was.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.27,0:04:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was everywhere\Naround myself when I grew up.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.30,0:04:11.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was printed on matches,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.05,0:04:12.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing cards,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.71,0:04:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,textbooks, posters.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.18,0:04:17.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The propaganda praising\Nthe one-child policy
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.27,0:04:18.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was everywhere around us.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.97,0:04:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Anyone who refuses to sterilize\Nwill be arrested.]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.54,0:04:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so were the threats\Nagainst disobeying it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.90,0:04:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The message seeped into our minds
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.36,0:04:29.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so much so that I grew up\Nfeeling embarrassed
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.59,0:04:31.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for having a younger brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.62,0:04:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With each person I filmed,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.53,0:04:43.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw how their minds and hearts\Ncan be influenced by the propaganda,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.91,0:04:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how their willingness\Nto make sacrifices for the greater good
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.03,0:04:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be twisted into something\Nvery dark and tragic.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.47,0:04:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,China is not the only place\Nwhere this happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.44,0:05:01.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no country on earth\Nwhere propaganda isn't present.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.18,0:05:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in societies that are supposed to be\Nmore open and free than China,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.84,0:05:10.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can be even harder to recognize\Nwhat propaganda looks like.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.73,0:05:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It hides in plain sight as news reports,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.39,0:05:19.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TV commercials, political campaigning
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.45,0:05:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in our social media feeds.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.35,0:05:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It works to change our minds\Nwithout our knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.30,0:05:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every society is vulnerable\Nto accepting propaganda as truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.43,0:05:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no society where propaganda\Nreplaces the truth
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.26,0:05:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be truly free.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.35,0:05:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.53,0:05:43.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)