ABSTRACT
On the eve of the 1990 Chinese New Year, the term “Child-bearing Guerilla” first came into existence in China. In a comedy sketch on the national TV channel which was viewed by hundreds of millions of people all over China, two famous Chinese entertainers, Huang Hong and Song Dandan, portrayed a rural couple who in their 4 years of marriage had produced 3 children, all girls. But they wanted to continue childbearing until they could have a boy. To escape the controls of local family planning workers, they were forced to continually move around the country, just like guerilla fighters who move to hide themselves from the enemy. The image of floating migrants as a high fertility population was thus impressed on the minds of many Chinese.
