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The Lost Daughters of China: Adopted Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past

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In 1997 journalist Karin Evans walked into an orphanage in southern China and met her new daughter, a beautiful one-year-old baby girl. In this fateful moment Evans became part of a profound, increasingly common human drama that links abandoned Chinese girls with foreigners who have traveled many miles to complete their families.

At once a compelling personal narrative and an evocative portrait of contemporary China, The Lost Daughters of China has also served as an invaluable guide for thousands of readers as they navigated the process of adopting from China. However, much has changed in terms of the Chinese government’s policies on adoption since this book was originally published and in this revised and updated edition Evans addresses these developments. Also new to this edition is a riveting chapter in which she describes her return to China in 2000 to adopt her second daughter who was nearly three at the time. Many of the first girls to be adopted from China are now in the teens (China only opened its doors to adoption in the 1990s), and this edition includes accounts of their experiences growing up in the US and, in some cases, of returning to China in search of their roots.

Illuminating the real-life stories behind the statistics, The Lost Daughters of China is an unforgettable account of the red thread that winds form China’s orphanages to loving families around the globe.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.7340820951
EAN: 9781585426768
ISBN: 1585426768
Label: Tarcher
Manufacturer: Tarcher
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2008-10-02
Publisher: Tarcher
Studio: Tarcher


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• National Geographic - China's Lost Girls
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: A wealth of information with personal touches
Comment: This book is both a beautiful memoir of a woman's international adoption and a history/case study of international adoptions from Asia. It gives great information that spans decades of China/US adoption relations. The author does a wonderful job explaining the significance of Confucianism and China's "One Child" policy and how it has resulted in the "Lost Daughters of China." Anchee Min, the author of Falling Leaves, gives a beautiful forward to add to an already beautifully written and researched account.

Customer Rating:
Summary: If you are planning to adopt from China, this is the book for you!
Comment: This was an interesting book for those that might be planning to adopt from China. It talks about the history of girls in China, and some laws, etc. She also went over the process for them. It was good, but I was wanting a little more of a memoir. It gives you a lot of info. on adoption in China, that's for sure!

Customer Rating:
Summary: informative read, if slightly repetitive
Comment: I enjoyed this book. For someone who is considering adoption from China, it was very helpful and moving to read about the experience from one who has been there.

I did find however, that the book was slightly repetitive. There seemed to be a lot of "Women are forced to give up their daughters so that they can have sons..." and "Women were forced to abort if they went over the one child rule..." and "Having a son is more important than anything on the planet"...over and over and over. I understood that after the first chapter. But each chapter seemed to repeat this in different words.

I really appreciated the author's personal story. She was honest and real about the anxieties involved in this process, including the huge financial cost of adopting from China. She also made clear the joys of adoption from China. We got an honest look at both sides of the coin.

Overall it was a well written and informative book. I'm glad I bought it used though. :)

Customer Rating:
Summary: Eye Opening!
Comment: This book is very eye opening. Evans paints such a clear picture of the problem with the one child policy in China while at the same time telling the story of her journey to adopt a daughter from China. This book was both heart wrenching and heart warming. After reading this book, I felt as thought I had just experienced a long talk with a close friend about her personal adoption story.

This book is great information for everyone, not just those interested in international adoption.

Customer Rating:
Summary: I was so nieve before reading this book!
Comment: All I can say about this book is that it really opened my eyes. A couple times while reading I thought to myself, "Could this be real?" The statistics and information given in this book are mind blowing. The book delivers the information in an organized, easy to understand way. After reading so much about the adoption process it was a nice change to read about the culture my child will be coming from. I gained historical and political perspective as well a real understanding about the way things "actually" are in China. I have to say that anyone adopting a Chinese daughter should read this book. I can only imagine it will also help me answer some questions that may arrise as my daughter grows.

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