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Crossing the blue willow bridge : a journey to my daughter's birthplace in China / Nancy McCabe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCabe, Nancy, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McCabe, Nancy, 1962---Travel--China.
- McCabe, Nancy.
- Intercountry adoption--China.
- Intercountry adoption.
- Intercountry adoption--United States.
- Mothers and daughters--United States.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Chinese American children--Family relationships.
- Chinese American children.
- Single mothers--United States.
- Single mothers.
- Adoptive parents--United States.
- Adoptive parents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, Missouri ; London : University of Missouri Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Even before Nancy McCabe and her daughter, Sophie, left for China, it was clear that, as the mother of an adopted child from China, McCabe would be seeing the country as a tourist while her daughter, who was seeing the place for the first time in her memory, was "going home." Part travelogue, part memoir, Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge immerses.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge
- Prologue: October 2008
- Chapter One: Ten Days Earlier
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three: October 2008
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five: October 2008
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven: October 2008
- Chapter Eight: October 2008
- Chapter Nine: October 2008
- Chapter Ten: October 2008
- Epilogue
- Note on Sources
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-7265-7
- OCLC:
- 780532261
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