Whose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st century

Identity, adoption and China's one-child policy


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Identity can be a tricky thing, especially if you're adopted from a country and culture that sees ethnic identity as immutable, to one where people reinvent themselves and their identities all the time. So it's been for many of the Chinese kids adopted into the United States, after landing in Chinese orphanages as a result of the one child policy. One of those kids, now grown, and her journalist mom have launched a project that reflects on identity, and led to an American daughter returning to her Chinese village of birth.
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Whose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryBy Mary Kay Magistad

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