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008			120330s2010 nyu 000 0 eng
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020			_a9781451610949
042			_alccopycat
050	0	0	_aHQ759 _b.X56 2010
082	0	4	_a306.8743 XIN
100	0		_aXinran _d, 1958-
240	1	0	_aNiang. English
245	1	0	_aMessage from an unknown Chinese mother _b: stories of loss and love _c/ Xinran ; translated from chinese by Nicky Harman
250			_a1st Scribner trade paperback ed
260			_aNew York _b: Scribner _c, 2010.
300			_a239 p. _c; 21 cm.
520			_aXinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and oral history. 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; naïve young girl students who have made life-wrecking mistakes; the "pebble mother" on the banks of the Yangzte 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.
650			_aMothers _z-China _v--Biography
650		0	_aChildren _z--China
650		0	_aFamily policy _z--China
942			_cMO
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