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Love without borders / Ni Wencai ; edited and translated by Vivian Ling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wencai, Ni, author.
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adoption--Social aspects.
- Adoption.
- Interracial adoption.
- Intercountry adoption.
- Interpersonal relations.
- China--Population policy.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 226 pages : illustrations (black and white), facsimiles ; 22 cm
- monochrome
- illustration
- facsimile
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Earnshaw Books, [2025]
- Summary:
- "For more than three decades into the early 21st Century, China's effort to curb population growth through the "one-child policy" created a wave of abandoned Chinese infants, most of them girls. Around 160,000 of these Chinese children found homes abroad, with more than half of them joining American families. International adoptions should be a beautiful story of familial love transcending national boundaries. However, when the unintended fallout from the one-child policy came to light, it captured Western media attention, making China's international adoption program a controversial subject. This book offers a unique blend of Chinese and Western perspectives. The author, a Chinese civil servant who also oversaw a local orphanage, is a scholar with an international outlook. The book explores human relationships: familial bonds that transcend biological links, the continuing connection of the adoptees and their families with their homeland in China, and the special relationship that developed between the author and families who adopted daughters from his jurisdiction. In an era of unprecedented geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, this book highlights an overwhelmingly positive aspect of the relationship between citizens of these two great nations, offering much-needed inspiration and hope" -- Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Love comes from afar : international adoptions
- Love in foreign lands : life of adopted children in foreign lands
- The ties that bind : your hometown will always be in our hearts
- International philanthropy at work in China's orphanages
- Love is forever : building bridges of friendship
- Voices from Gaoyou adoptive families.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226).
- ISBN:
- 9789888904211
- 9888904213
- OCLC:
- 1529579283
- Publisher Number:
- 90103968406
- EB236 Earnshaw Books
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