China's hidden children : abandonment, adoption, and the human costs of the one-child policy / Kay Ann Johnson.
2016
362.70951 J67c 2016
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Title
China's hidden children : abandonment, adoption, and the human costs of the one-child policy / Kay Ann Johnson.
Author
ISBN
9780226352510 (cloth : alk. paper)
022635251X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226352657 (e-book)
022635265X (electronic)
9780226352657 (electronic)
022635251X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226352657 (e-book)
022635265X (electronic)
9780226352657 (electronic)
Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
xiii, 218 pages ; 23 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
40025857597
Call Number
362.70951 J67c 2016
System Control No.
(OCoLC)915159254
(OCoLC)915159254
(OCoLC)915159254
Summary
In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children -- mostly girls -- have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It is generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China's approach to population control, but there is also the underlying belief that the majority of adoptees are daughters because the One-Child Policy often collides with the traditional preference for a son. While there is some truth to this, it does not tell the full story-- a story with deep personal resonance to Kay Ann Johnson, a China scholar and mother to an adopted Chinese daughter.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-208) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: somebody's children
Relinquishing daughters: from customary adoption to abandonment
Adopting daughters and hiding out-of-plan children
From "unwanted abandoned girls" to "stolen children": the circulation of out-of-plan children in the 2000s
An emerging "traffic in children"
Conclusion: the hidden human costs of the one-child policy.
Relinquishing daughters: from customary adoption to abandonment
Adopting daughters and hiding out-of-plan children
From "unwanted abandoned girls" to "stolen children": the circulation of out-of-plan children in the 2000s
An emerging "traffic in children"
Conclusion: the hidden human costs of the one-child policy.
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