In More Than One Child, she provides a vivid account of the family planning era in China while sharing the adventures and sorrows of her own childhood. She was raised from birth to age five by loving grandparents in a remote village but was then summarily removed and adopted by an abusive aunt and uncle. Finally, in her teens, she rejoined her other sisters at home, although family life was anything but happy. But More Than One Child is not only Shen Yang's story; it is the untold story of China’s enormous yet invisible community of excess-birth children.