some resources

Books

• China's Hidden Children, Kay Ann Johnson (2016)
• Wanting a Daugther, Needing a Son : Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China, Kay Ann Johnson (2004)
• Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love, Xinran (2011)
• L'adoption internationale : Mythes et réalités, Johee Bourgain (2021)
• outsiders within, edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah & Sun Yung Shin (2006)

• One Child Nation, Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, 2019
• Une histoire à soi, Amandine Gay, 2021

• Why is China still so reluctant to help us find our birth parents? (2020)
• Personal Essay by a Chinese adoptee: I returned to China to find my biological family and discover my cultural roots

• Research-China.org
• Dna-Connect.org
• My Taproot

• La couleur de l'adoption (2018)
• L'hybridé (Montréal)

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* this list focuses on resources concerning adoptees' narratives *

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