China Adoption

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China Adoption By Jenna Cook Introduction In compiling this short bibliography of core sources related to China Adoption, I took particular care to include the perspectives and voices of all triad members: birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive parents. I have chosen to exclude works on adoption in late imperial China and to focus, instead, on adoption after the implementation of the One Child Policy in 1979. Many of the works I have included make efforts to examine the complex sociopolitical and cultural structures underlying this policy and its resulting effect on infant abandonment and adoption. Although a few sources touch upon domestic Chinese adoption, the majority of sources focus on international (i.e. transnational or intercountry) adoption from China. The selections here are methodologically diverse, encompassing personal narratives, literary analysis, psychological studies, population demography, anthropological ethnography, sociological surveys, and documentary film, and include a broad range of topics such as orphanage care, child trafficking, birth parent search, and beyond. Throughout such variety, the role of gender, race, and class—images of female adoptees reared by upper-middle-class, white parents—consistently underlie each analysis. Adams,Gregory,RichardTessler,andGailGamache.“TheDevelopment of Ethnic Identity among Chinese Adoptees: Paradoxical Effects of School Diversity.” Adoption Quarterly 8.3 (2005): 25–46. Taylor & Francis Online. Web. 10 Jul. 2013. Anagnost, Ann. “Family Violence and Magical Violence: The Woman as Victim in China’s One-Child Birth Policy.” Women and Language 9.2 (1988): 16–22. ProQuest. Web. 10 Jul. 2013. ---. “Scenes of Misrecognition: Maternal Citizenship in the Age of Transnational Adoption.” Positions 8.2 (2000): 389­ –421. Duke UP Journals Online. Web. 10 Jul. 2013. ---. “Maternal Labor in a Transnational Circuit.” Consuming Motherhood. Ed. Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne, and Danielle F. Wozniak. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2004. 139–67. Print. Cook, “China” 53 Andrew, Anita M. “China’s Abandoned Children and Transnational Adoption: Issues and Problems for U.S.-China Relations, Adoption Agencies, and Adoptive Parents.” Journal of Women’s History 19.1 (2007): 123–31, 249. GenderWatch. Web. 10 Jul. 2013. Bebiroglu, Neda, and Ellen E. Pinderhughes. “Mothers Raising Daughters: New Complexities in Cultural Socialization for Children Adopted from China.” Adoption Quarterly 15.2 (2012): 116–39. Taylor & Francis Online. Web. 10 Jul. 2013. Chatham-Carpenter, April. “‘It Was Like This, I Think’: Constructing an Adoption Narrative for Chinese Adopted Children.” Adoption Quarterly 15.3 (2012): 157–84. Taylor & Francis Online. Web. 10 Jul. 2013. China Connection: A Journal for New England Families Who Have Adopted Children From China. Published bi-/tri-annually from 1995 to 2008. 1995-2001, Ed. Julie Michaels. 2002–2008, Ed. Melissa Ludtke. Print. China’s Lost Girls. Dir. Allan Myers. Perf. Lisa Ling. National Geographic, 2004. DVD. Choy,CatherineCeniza.GlobalFamilies:AHistoryofAsianInternational Adoption in America. New York: New York UP, 2013. Print. Daughter’s Return. Dir. Changfu Chang. Love without Boundaries, 2011. DVD. Dorow, Sara. “‘China R Us?’: Care, Consumption, and Transnationally Adopted Children.” Symbolic Childhood. Ed. D. Cook. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 149–68. Print. ---. “Racialized Choices: Chinese Adoption and the ‘White Noise’ of Blackness.” Critical Sociology 32.2-3 (2006): 357­–79. SAGE Journals. Web. 10 Jul. 2013. ---. Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship. New York: New York UP, 2006. Print. Dorow, Sara, and Amy Swiffen. “Blood and Desire: The Secret of Heteronormativity in Adoption Narratives of Culture.” American Ethnologist 36.3 (2009): 563–73. Wiley Online Library. Web. 10 Jul. 2013. Dowling, Monica, and Gill Brown. “Globalization and International Adoption from China.” Child and Family Social Work 14.3 (2009): 352­–61. Wiley Online Library. Web. 10 Jul. 2013. Adoption & Culture Vol. 4 (2014) 54 Evans, Karin. The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past. New York: Putnam, 2000. Print. Found in China. Dir. Carolyn Stanek. Tai-Kai Productions, 2007. DVD. Gammage, Jeff. China Ghosts: My Daughter’s Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008. Print. Greenhalgh, Susan. “Controlling Births and Bodies in Village China.” American Ethnologist 21.1 (1994): 3–30. JSTOR. Web. 10 Jul. 2013. ---. Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China. Berkeley: U of California P, 2008. Print...