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Author Dorow, Sara K.

Title Transnational adoption : a cultural economy of race, gender, and kinship / Sara K. Dorow.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.734 D715T    Check Shelf
Description ix, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Nation of newcomers
Nation of newcomers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-320) and index.
Contents Why China? : identifying histories -- Matches made on earth : making parents and children for each other -- Picturing kinship -- Client, ambassador, and gift : managing adoption exchange -- Shamian Island : borders of belonging -- Storied origins : abandonment, adoption, and motherhood -- American ghosts : cultural identities, racial constructions.
Subject Intercountry adoption -- China.
Intercountry adoption -- United States.
Ethnicity -- China.
China -- Social life and customs.
ISBN 0814719716 cloth alkaline paper
0814719724 paperback alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780814719718
9780814719725
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