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  • China's Hidden Children

    Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

    par Kay Ann Johnson ...
    In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It's generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China's approach to population control, but there is also the underlying belief that the majority of adoptees are daughters because the One-Child Policy ... En savoir plus

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  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    par David Moser ...
    Collections series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the ... En savoir plus

    $10.19 CAD

  • Anxious Wealth

    Money and Morality Among China's New Rich

    par John Osburg ...
    Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the course of more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied, and in some instances assisted, wealthy Chinese businessmen as they courted clients, partners, and ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Democratic Insecurities

    Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti

    par Erica Caple James ...
    Collections Livre 22 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup. In this remarkable ethnography of violence, Erica Caple James explores the traumas of Haitian victims whose experiences were denied by U.S. officials and recognized only selectively by other humanitarian providers. Using vivid first-person accounts from women ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Marching Through Suffering

    Loss and Survival in North Korea

    par Sandra Fahy ...
    Collections series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime.These oral ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Adopted Territory

    Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

    par Eleana J. Kim ...
    Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed-race children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew exponentially from the 1960s through the 1980s. At the height of South Korea ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • New Masters, New Servants

    Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

    par Hairong Yan ...
    On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • To Save the Children of Korea

    The Cold War Origins of International Adoption

    par Arissa H. Oh ...
    Collections series Asian America
    To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we know very little about how or why it began, or how or why it developed into the practice that we see today.Arissa Oh argues that international adoption began in the aftermath of the Korean War. First established as an ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Outsiders Within

    Writing on Transracial Adoption

    Modifié par Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, Sun Yung Shin ...
    Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in printMany adoptees are required to become people that they were never meant to be. While transracial adoption tends to be considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and economic toll on those who directly experience it. Outsiders Within is a landmark publication that carefully explores this most ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Paper Families

    Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion

    par Estelle T. Lau, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Collections series Politics, History, and Culture
    The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made the Chinese the first immigrant group officially excluded from the United States. In Paper Families, Estelle T. Lau demonstrates how exclusion affected Chinese American communities and initiated the development of restrictive U.S. immigration policies and practices. Through the enforcement of the Exclusion Act and subsequent legislation, the U.S. immigration ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Two Systems, Two Countries

    A Nationalist Guide to Hong Kong

    par Kevin Carrico ...
    As Hong Kong is integrated into the People’s Republic of China, ever fewer people in the city identify as Chinese. Two Systems, Two Countries explains why.Two Systems, Two Countries traces the origins of Hong Kong nationalism and introduces readers to its main schools of thought: city-state theory, self-determination, independence, and returnism. The idea of Hong Kong independence, Kevin Carrico ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Cosmologies of Credit

    Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China

    par Julie Y. Chu ...
    Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the promise of an overseas destiny: neither the ever-increasing smuggling fee for successful travel nor ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD