CHINESE RESOURCES

The following is a list of resources for Chinese adoptees compiled over the years.  It includes information about the country, reunions, searches, stories/experiences of other adoptees, and many more bits and pieces.
 

• Chinese Adoptee Links (CAL)
   

Chinese Adoptee Stories

• Zhang Empresses
• Dual Identity - being raised Jewish & Chinese
• Jennifer - Do Your Eyes Light Up
• Ilan's Thoughts on Returning to Birth Country & Family (Taiwanese)
• Corrie Lothrop - Chinese Adoptee makes it to Olympic Trials
• Gianna Horak: Pre-Olympic Ceremony, Return Visit Planned, & A Young Singer's Olympic Sized Adventure
• Amanda Baden: Hong Kong Adoptee
• Adoption - Chinese vs Adopted Chinese
• Film: Annie Ong: Lost & Found by Singaporean adoptee who finds her birth mother
• Taiwanese Adoptee blog: Shadow Between Two Worlds

• Adopted Teen finds his Biological Parents

• Adopted teen finds answers, mystery in China

• Wayson Choy - Chinese born adoptee raised in Canada writes his autobiography Not Yet and on Radio ABC

Adoptive Parent Organisations with relevant Info

• Our Chinese Daughters Foundation (OCDF)
• Research-China.Org
• FCC Australia's 1st official China Heritage Tour
  10 - 17 April, 2009
  Further details contact
• 2009 Anniversary Tour of China: Official blog site of the Australian FCC trip

Multimedia

• Book: Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage

• Adult Adoptees of Southeast Asia (AASEA)
• South Asian International Adoptees Talk (SAIA-T)
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Search & Reunion

• Search Information for Hong Kong Adoptees (by Anna)
• The Social Welfare Department of Hong Kong

Research

• Health & Development of Children Adopted from China
• Research Booklet: Children Adopted from China - A Longitudinal Study of their Health, Growth & Development.  Email Nancy for a copy
• Tracing the Red Thread: An Ethnography of Chinese-US Transnational Adoption
• Transracial Adoption: Expatriate parents living in China with their adopted Chinese children
• Cumberland Law Review 39:1: Sold into Adoption - The Hunan Baby Trafficking Scandal exposes vulnerabilities in Chinese adoptions to the USA
• Dec 2008 - Hong Kong Adoption Statistics

Documentary

• Four Corners - China's Stolen Children also on YouTube: China's Stolen Children
• The Hague Agreement & China's International Adoption Program

Trafficking Reports

• Revealed: 77 trafficked Chinese children lost by home

• SW China: baby girls taken and sold for adoption

• China checks out charges babies taken from homes

• Chinese babies stolen by officials for foreign adoption
• China rescues Kidnapped Children