Message from an unknown Chinese mother
Subtitle: stories of loss and love
By: Xinran ; translated from Chinese by Nicky Harman
Contributors: Harman, Nicky
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781451610895
Subjects: Government policy; Mothers; Abandoned children; Family size; Motherhood; Loss (Psychology); Family policy; Intercountry adoption; Social conditions; Mothers and daughters; Children; Biography
Work titles: Niang
Description: Xinran tells of her experiences and travails as a mother and her observation of other women as mothers.
Notes: Translation from the Chinese.
Table of contents: title: A book written for adopted daughters; title: The first mother I met who had lost her daughter; title: The mothers of girls are all heartsick; title: The midwife's story; title: The dishwasher who twice tried to kill herself; title: Extra-birth guerrilla troops: a father on the run; title: Red Mary of the orphanage; title: The mother who still waits in the U.S.A.; title: A morality tale for our times; title: Bonds of love: stones and leaves; title: Little Snow, where are you?; title: Two letters from the heart; title: More letters from adoptive mothers; title: Chinese adoption laws; title: Suicide among women; title: The 18 wonders of Chengdu; title: Support the mother's Bridge of Love for Chinese Children.