ABSTRACT
“They will eventually comply with this new [one-child] policy. … The first time will be the most difficult, just like when you put a yoke on an ox’s back for the first time. It will resist and struggle. But once the yoke is accepted by the ox, you can tighten it repeatedly, even to the point of choking it to death. Peasants are like oxen. Once they accept something as inevitable, you can continue to tighten the screw.”
