The Lost Daughters of China

by Evans, Karin

• ISBN13: 9781585421176
• ISBN10: 1585421170
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Tarcher

Summary

This bestselling journalistic memoir explores Chinese and American culture at a unique point of intersection: the baby girls who, each year, are abandoned in one country and adopted in the other.

Author Biography

Karin Evans has worked as a writer and editor for numerous publications, including Outside, Rocky Mountain Magazine, the San Francisco Examiner Sunday magazine, Health, and Hippocrates. She spent two years as a stringer for the Hong Kong bureau of Newsweek. Her writing has also appeared in the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Examiner, the Denver Post, and the Los Angeles Times. She lives with her husband, attorney Mark Humbert, and daughters Kelly and Frances in northern California.

Table of Contents

A Letter to All the Lost Daughters of China	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Journey to the East	p. 8
From China with Love	p. 45
Down the River	p. 73
The One-Child, Maybe-One-More Policy	p. 94
The Taming Power of the Small	p. 119
Matters of Life and Death	p. 151
East-West Lives	p. 171
In the Light of the Autumn Moon	p. 195
The Search for Home	p. 208
Through the Chinese Looking Glass	p. 219
Epilogue	p. 241
A Conversation with Karin Evans	p. 263
More Food for Thought	p. 277
Notes	p. 281
Bibliography	p. 291
Resources	p. 295
Acknowledgments	p. 297
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