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Review: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, A True Story
of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins – Barbara Demick (Text)
At the end of a long road trip through rural China in 2009, American journalist
Barbara Demick had an encounter that would change the course of her life. In
the previous days, she had interviewed several parents whose children had been
forcibly removed from them by government officials. Demick suspected there may
be a link between the missing children and China’s booming international
adoption industry.
She had enough for her story, but some instinct compelled her to follow the
next lead to remote Gaofeng Village, high in the mountains of Hunan Province.
Her driver could only take her so far. The dirt road ended at a stream, where
she was met by local woman Zanhua Zeng and her daughter Shuangjie. They guided
her across a makeshift bridge and into the village where “everything was in the
process of falling down or going up”.
There, she learnt about two-year-old Fangfang, daughter of Zanhua and twin
sister of Shuangjie, violently taken from her aunt’s care in 2002. Government
officials had told the family they were in breach of China’s One Child Policy
and were not allowed to keep the baby. They had no idea what had happened to
their daughter and sister.
Zanhua’s parting words were: “Come back again and next time bring my
daughter.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
