TWIN-KLE: TWINS IN CHINA The normal Chinese family should only have one child. Whoever violates the "one child law" must pay high taxes. Unless nature plays a role: Twins are almost a "subversive" exception – biology doesn't allow them to be forbidden. Twins in China, in a certain sense, are an anachronism: The "one child policy" results in children growing up without any brothers or sisters. A society of “one child” families is developing – they are protected by their parents and, in accordance with the communist ideal, only have to deal with children their own age who do not belong to their family. This is a unique situation in the world, but the endeavor is necessary in China in view of its growing population. Nature – however - seems to want to be inconsistent: Twins are born in China just as frequently as in other countries of the world. Bernd Uhlig traveled to different cities and went from village to village, asking the inhabitants about twins between the ages of 2 and 16, and in some villages he even discovered two sets of twins. The result of his work is a poetic commentary on Chinese population planning – a wink of nature's eye in a world of "one child" families.