Catalogue by titles / Wanting a daughter, needing a son: Abandonment, adoption, and orphanage care in China
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| ISS/IRC Code | COM-ADOPT ENG-043 |
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| Title | Wanting a daughter, needing a son: Abandonment, adoption, and orphanage care in China |
| Author | JOHNSON Kay Ann |
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| General information | |
| Date published/issue | 00-00-2004 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
| Place published | UNITED STATES |
| Editor | |
| Publisher | Yeong & Yeong Book Company, 1368 Michelle Drive, St. Paul, Minnesota 55123-1459, USA |
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| Page | 255 |
| Price | 24.95$ |
| ISBN | 0-9638472-7-9 |
| Type of material | Book |
| Language of document |
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| Document information | |
| Document description |
Commentaries Research |
| Country concerned |
CHINA |
| Index |
Abandon-cause Adoption-intercountry Institution-child Adoption Orphan Abandonment Adoption-domestic |
| Free text | In this research, Kay Ann Johnson untangles the complex interactions between the practices of abandonment and adoption in China and the government's population policies. She explores also the consequences of this: the overcrowding of orphanages that led China to begin international adoptions, the quantity of healthy infant girls in these orphanages... She shows that a rapidly changing culture in late twentieth-century hastened a positive revaluation of daughters, while new policies limiting births undercut girls'improving status in the family. |
| Document qualification | |
| Degree of interest | Of interest |
| Work area |
Miscellaneous |
| Potential users |
All |
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