The Lost Daughters of China - Adopted Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search fora Missing Past (Paperback, Revised, Updated ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Jeremy P. Tarcher
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	October 2008
Authors:	Karin Evans
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	400
Edition:	Revised, Updated ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-58542-676-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Adoption & fostering
LSN:	1-58542-676-8
Barcode:	9781585426768

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