anbefaling av litteratur om adopsjon, Kina

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Anbefaler denne nye boken for kina adoptanter og adopterte.

" Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son. Abandonment, Adoption and Orphanage Care in China"

av Kay Ann Johnson

Hun er selv Professor of Asian Studies and Politics ved Hampshire College, med fokus på Kina. Adopterte selv en datter på begynnelsen av 90 tallet, og har forsket på temaet siden. Boken innholder artikler og forskningsresultater. Enkelte prosjekter er gjort i samarbeid med kinesiske forskere.

Leste den i sommer med stor interesse.

Sitat Susan Greenlagh;

“In this highly illuminating and deeply moving book, Kay Johnson provides an intimate portrait of the complex processes by which, over the past decade, thousands of little Chinese girls have made their way from orphanages in China into adoptive homes overseas. It is a story that plays out on many levels and challenges long-held stereotypes about China. While Johnson documents dramatic improvements in the conditions of Chinese orphanages during the 1990s, she also illuminates the persistent challenges facing families caught between the Chinese state’s policy of one or two children for all and rural Chinese society’s insistent need for sons. Written by the leading scholarly authority on the abandonment and adoption of Chinese children, this groundbreaking study opens up a world of Chinese politics--the politics of children--whose inner dynamics will fascinate, disturb, and ultimately give hope to adoptive parents and scholars alike.” --Susan Greenhalgh, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Irvine, co-author of Population and Power in Post-Deng China (Stanford Univ. Press, 2004), and author of the forthcoming book Science, Modernity, and the Making of China’s One-Child Policy.