Trinity Wang is a third-year undergraduate international student majoring in English. Her research compares and analyzes two contemporary fiction novels that interrogate the historical and ongoing traumas related to surrogacy and birth control: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Mo Yan’s Frog (Wa). While Atwood’s chilling dystopian novel in which fertile women are raped by powerful men and abortions are banned has already established itself as a modern classic (and turned into reality in some states over the past year), fewer people have heard of or studied the Chinese Nobel Literature Laureate’s novel about the notorious One Child Policy of China. As a feminist and an only-child who was born during the policy period, these books deeply intrigue Trinity. Her thesis comparatively analyzes the narrative strategy and symbolism of these two novels, interrogating the relationships between womb, subjectivity and biopolitics, and ultimately asks: how does literature tell tales of a country’s difficult reproductive history that are both deeply personal and inevitably national?