Yang Huang

Living Treasures Yang Huang

What do a law student and a panda have in common? When Gu Bao falls in love with a handsome, young soldier only to be hunted by one-child policy enforcers, she finds out what it feels like to be an endangered species. 

Set in China during the tumultuous Tiananmen Square protest in 1989, Bellwether Prize finalist Living Treasures portrays the crusade of Gu Bao, a girl who grows up under the Chinese government's one-child policy. The Chinese government has enforced strict controls to keep the country from environmental destitution and poverty ever since Mao's ban on family planning left China a legacy of 1.1 billion people, 20% of the population on earth. 

Bao searches for her inner strength while exploring the Sichuan mountain landscape. She befriends a panda mother caught in a poacher's snare, and an expectant young mother hiding from villainous one-child policy enforcers bent on giving compulsory abortions. All struggle against society to preserve the treasure of their little ones. Bao devises a daring plan that changes the lives of everyone around her. Will Bao earn a second chance to save a family from destruction? What price will Bao pay to prevent a full-term abortion and save a panda cub?