For more than a decade, Li Dongmei operated a series of kindergartens and schools for young children, withstanding the realities of China's declining birthrate.
Like every other industrialized country that made the transition from an agrarian society, Japan's birthrate exploded throughout the process and peaked in the nineteen twenties.
But after 1950, Japan's birthrate began to take a nosedive to the point in the nineteen sixties, Japanese women were only having two children on average.