Review of the books “Formulas for Motherhood in a Chinese Hospital”, by Suzanne Gottschang, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018, “Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China” by Lihong Shi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017 and “The Good Child: Moral Development” by Jing Xu, Stanford, Standford University Press, 2017