The Lost Daughters of China
7 best books like The Lost Daughters of China (Karin Evans): Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now, Bound Feet & Western Dress, Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love, China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood, Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China, Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult, Burning Sky
Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
| Author | Jan Wong |
| ISBN | 0385482329 |
Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool...
Bound Feet & Western Dress
| Author | Pang-Mei Natasha Chang |
| ISBN | 0385479646 |
"In China, a woman is nothing."
Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of...
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
| Author | Xinran |
| ISBN | 0701184027 |
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is made up of the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them, and also brings us the voices of some adoptive mothers from different parts of the world. These are stories which Xinran could not bring herself to tell previously - because...
"After eighteen years together, Christine and I are down to our last hour as a couple. By dinner we will be a threesome. It seems strange to stand so firmly atop a generational fault line, to know that in an hour you'll be a parent, to understand that your old life is disappearing before your eyes, that a new...
| Author | Kay Ann Johnson |
| ISBN | 0963847279 |
Kay Johnson has done groundbreaking research on abandonment and adoption in China. In Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son, Johnson untangles the complex interactions between these social practices and the government's population policies. She also documents the many unintended consequences,...
Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult
| Author | Susan Ashline |
| ISBN | 1643130722 |
The horrifying true story of a killing inside the secluded Word of Life Christian Church, a parish-turned-cult in upstate New York.
Teenager Lucas Leonard made shocking admissions in front of the altar―he'd practiced witchcraft, conspired to murder his parents, and committed unspeakable...
| Author | Lori Benton |
| ISBN | 0307731472 |
Abducted by Mohawk Indians at fourteen and renamed Burning Sky, Willa Obenchain is driven to return to her family’s New York frontier homestead after many years building a life with the People. At the boundary of her father’s property, Willa discovers a wounded Scotsman lying in her path. Feeling...
