Greenhalgh's own promotional webpage for Just One Child captions a Song Jian/Liang Zhongtang fieldwork photo 'Dissecting the Policy with One of its Most Outspoken Critic,' echoing her 2005 article's language
Separately from [[entity-just-one-child-greenhalgh-2008|Just One
Child]]'s own PDF excerpts, Susan Greenhalgh's
personal website hosts a promotional page for the book titled "The
Biopolitics of Population Control / Just One Child." Under a photo
gallery captioned "Doing Fieldwork on the One-child Policy, Late
1980s," one image — filed under the name
R5-c-Pop-7-S-and-Liang-ZT-bw-3-min.jpg (identifying its subjects by
surname initials as "S[ong, Jian]" and "Liang Z[hong]T[ang]") — is
captioned: "Dissecting the Policy with One of its Most Outspoken Critic."
The "Most Outspoken" phrasing closely echoes
[[claim-greenhalgh-2005-quote-names-liang-zhongtang-as-outspoken-critic|the
2005 China Quarterly article's]] description of
Liang as "the most outspoken" of the social
scientists hostile to Song Jian's group.
This is Tier 1 material — the author's own site, promotional copy she herself wrote or approved for her own book — but it is paratextual: a photo caption on a promotional page, not a sentence from the book's own prose. It corroborates that the book's framing of Liang as "most outspoken" critic persisted into how Greenhalgh herself later presented the book publicly, without being a direct quotation from the book's own text. The image's filename and caption, read together, independently support that the person pictured with Song Jian is identified by Greenhalgh as Liang Zhongtang and as the policy's most outspoken critic — but this remains one piece of promotional-page evidence for the characterization question, not a reading of the book's own chapters 5–8, which remain unread by any vault session.
Source
“Dissecting the Policy with One of its Most Outspoken Critic”
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