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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

Xinran
4.12/5 (1922 ratings)
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Internationally bestselling author Xinran’s searing stories of mothers who have abandoned or given their daughters up for adoption.

Xinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers- students, successful businesswomen, midwives, peasants- who have given up their daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions, or hideous economic necessity, these women had to give up their daughters for adoption; others even had to watch as their baby daughters were taken away at birth and drowned. Xinran beautifully portrays the "extra-birth" guerrillas" who travel the roads and the railways, evading the system, trying to hold on to more than one baby; naive young girl students who have made life-wrecking mistakes; the "pebble mother" on the banks of the Yangszte River still looking into the depths for her stolen daughter; peasant women rejected by their families because they can't produce a male heir; and Little Snow, the orphaned baby fostered by Xinran but confiscated by the state.

For parents of adopted Chinese children and for the children themselves, this is an indispensable, powerful, and intensely moving book. Message from and Unknown Chinese Mother is powered by love and by heartbreak and will stay with readers long after they have turned the final page.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0701184027
ISBN13:
9780701184025
kindle Asin:
B003V1WX8M

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

Xinran
4.12/5 (1922 ratings)
Read Download
Internationally bestselling author Xinran’s searing stories of mothers who have abandoned or given their daughters up for adoption.

Xinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers- students, successful businesswomen, midwives, peasants- who have given up their daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions, or hideous economic necessity, these women had to give up their daughters for adoption; others even had to watch as their baby daughters were taken away at birth and drowned. Xinran beautifully portrays the "extra-birth" guerrillas" who travel the roads and the railways, evading the system, trying to hold on to more than one baby; naive young girl students who have made life-wrecking mistakes; the "pebble mother" on the banks of the Yangszte River still looking into the depths for her stolen daughter; peasant women rejected by their families because they can't produce a male heir; and Little Snow, the orphaned baby fostered by Xinran but confiscated by the state.

For parents of adopted Chinese children and for the children themselves, this is an indispensable, powerful, and intensely moving book. Message from and Unknown Chinese Mother is powered by love and by heartbreak and will stay with readers long after they have turned the final page.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0701184027
ISBN13:
9780701184025
kindle Asin:
B003V1WX8M

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