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

Xinran

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love. To get started finding Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love. To get started finding Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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