num_pages: 380
description: The memoir of an American mother of an adopted Chinese baby girl is a cultural history of the events that led to the controversial 1980 one-child policy in China and the subsequent generation-long abandonment of Chinese daughters to American families.
language: English
title: The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past
titlecomplete: The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past
genres: China, Asian Literature, Historical, Feminism, History, Asia, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Adoption
ratings_count: 2384
publisher: Tarcher