Articles & Links
Here are my favorite links. They focus on Asian/Chinese adoption. It is not a comprehensive list and there are more inclusive lists online which I will link down below.
If you don't want to be listed anymore, let me know. Also, the CCI blog list is actively posting links to new blogs if you want to request to be on that list.
News & Articles
Brian and Lan Stuy's Research China BLOG (The only resource I trust to give me facts not fiction.)Origin story: the truth behind an international adoption by NHK World (Japanese news station, similar to BBC) of Meilan Stuy's story. 2021
Always Curious, But Never Searching... Written by reunited adoptee, Anna, who thought she was abandoned but was actually taken by authorities. 2021
She thought she was abandoned in China 20 years ago. Then her birth parents found her. Zoe's story of finding birthfamily, 2019
Wonderful article by NBC about Brian and Longlan Stuy regarding Chinese adoption. Read this, if you read nothing else, to inform yourself about Chinese Adoption. You were not unwanted. 2020
Independent Lens: THIS COUPLE FINDS ANSWERS FOR ADOPTED DAUGHTERS FROM CHINA A wonderful article by Independent Lens on the Stuys and One Child Nation. A quote is: "[We can] show them through the documentary, no, you were not abandoned at the side of the road or left alone unprotected by your birth family. Almost always you were transferred from a person to a person who then brought you to an orphanage, under constant supervision and protection. I think that is a revelation to many adoptees." 2020
Jenna Cook: The adopted girl claimed by 50 birth families
Article written by BBC of Jenna Cook, Chinese adoptee, then a Yale undergraduate as she tries to find her birthparents in China and meets many other birth families trying to find their daughter and hoping she is theirs. 2017
Wonderful article by NBC about Brian and Longlan Stuy regarding Chinese adoption. Read this, if you read nothing else, to inform yourself about Chinese Adoption. You were not unwanted. 2020
Independent Lens: THIS COUPLE FINDS ANSWERS FOR ADOPTED DAUGHTERS FROM CHINA A wonderful article by Independent Lens on the Stuys and One Child Nation. A quote is: "[We can] show them through the documentary, no, you were not abandoned at the side of the road or left alone unprotected by your birth family. Almost always you were transferred from a person to a person who then brought you to an orphanage, under constant supervision and protection. I think that is a revelation to many adoptees." 2020
Jenna Cook: The adopted girl claimed by 50 birth families
Article written by BBC of Jenna Cook, Chinese adoptee, then a Yale undergraduate as she tries to find her birthparents in China and meets many other birth families trying to find their daughter and hoping she is theirs. 2017
Changing Attitudes: One Child Policy by Lan Stuy
Lan writes from her own perspective growing up in China with multiple sisters on how the policy affected them. The exceptions (wealthy/well-connected) and how in just one generation, the country went from "More children, more happiness" to "DINK, double income no kids" with many people content with fewer children. 2015
SupChina 2020: ‘We have never abandoned you’: A Chinese family’s search for their daughter
Details the plight of one birthfamily in particular and the subsequent reunion with the adoptee about 20 years later. The introduction is a good place to start.
Red Thread Broken: Recommended Links (Links to other links)
The Here and Nao, Naomi Ji, Chinese adoptee from Shanghai
Lana Condor's channel. (Vietnamese adoptee. Actress. Star of To All The Boys I've Loved Before.) Her wikipedia page. The YouTube channel is not adoption focused.
Claire Marshall's beauty/lifestyle youtube channel. (Korean adoptee) The youtube channel is not adoption focused, and only one video makes a mention of her being a Korean adoptee. Great makeup tips!
11 Things About Asian Adoptees feat. aka Dan a Fung Bros. video featuring aka DAN, a south Korean adoptee. To the point, fun, and relatable.
aka DAN documentary South Korean adoptee, YouTube famous rapper aka DAN, returns to Korea to meet his birthfamily, including his twin brother. Very creative, thoroughly enjoyable. He was in charge of his own narrative and I really respect that.
Details the plight of one birthfamily in particular and the subsequent reunion with the adoptee about 20 years later. The introduction is a good place to start.
What Longer Documentaries/Movies Adoptees Watch
In order of most recent. Why? Because we literally just "discovered" our finding documents were largely forged. Prior to 2019, most adoptees and adoptive families blindly believed the "abandonment narrative" and never even considered alternatives. But the truth is complicated. Older documentaries don't reflect this reality.
- One Child Nation (2019 About China's One Child Policy) Free with Amazon Prime
- Meet Me on the Bridge (2017, Chinese adoptee) FREE on YouTube
- aka Dan Documentary (2015, South Korean adoptee) FREE on YouTube
- Twinsters (2015, South Korean adoptees) Rent on YouTube or Amazon for $4
- Somewhere Between (2011, Chinese adoptees) Rent from Amazon $4
Other Adoptee Link Lists
China's Children International: Blogs & Organizations (CCI Links to other adoptee media, many, but not all are from Chinese adoptees. Some blogs are deleted. While it would be unrealistic to expect to agree on everything, I think it's worthwhile to read other perspectives. Red Thread Broken and LFS Musings are prime examples.)Red Thread Broken: Recommended Links (Links to other links)
Blogs/Links to Pages
How To Be Adopted Blog by Claire, a UK-domestic adoptee (Post I really love about not prefacing your right to life with "gratitude" I'm not grateful to my parents for adopting me)
Claire kindly allowed me to guest post on her blog: Guest Post by Yuna Silverstein: Searching for Truth
China's Controversy Blog by Kira, a Canada-based Chinese adoptee
Our China Stories A collection of interviews and autobiographies of different contributing Chinese adoptees and their families
Thoughts of a Chinese Adoptee Blog by Megan Weitzner, a USA-based Chinese adoptee
Aliens in the USA Blog by Simeng Dai, a "Hidden Daughter" who is now living in the USA. We really don't talk about those Chinese hidden daughters whose parents were only able to keep them from the one-child policy by hiding them. At great emotional cost. Her post about encountering the Chinese adoptee community in the USA. And her letter to herself about her past.
Claire kindly allowed me to guest post on her blog: Guest Post by Yuna Silverstein: Searching for Truth
China's Controversy Blog by Kira, a Canada-based Chinese adoptee
Our China Stories A collection of interviews and autobiographies of different contributing Chinese adoptees and their families
Thoughts of a Chinese Adoptee Blog by Megan Weitzner, a USA-based Chinese adoptee
Aliens in the USA Blog by Simeng Dai, a "Hidden Daughter" who is now living in the USA. We really don't talk about those Chinese hidden daughters whose parents were only able to keep them from the one-child policy by hiding them. At great emotional cost. Her post about encountering the Chinese adoptee community in the USA. And her letter to herself about her past.
Nicole Chung: Stories of transracial adoptees must be heard -- even uncomfortable ones (Korean adoptee) 2019
YouTube
Growing Up Adopted: helloleahellen, Chinese adoptee from Guangzhou, GuangdongThe Here and Nao, Naomi Ji, Chinese adoptee from Shanghai
Lana Condor's channel. (Vietnamese adoptee. Actress. Star of To All The Boys I've Loved Before.) Her wikipedia page. The YouTube channel is not adoption focused.
Claire Marshall's beauty/lifestyle youtube channel. (Korean adoptee) The youtube channel is not adoption focused, and only one video makes a mention of her being a Korean adoptee. Great makeup tips!
11 Things About Asian Adoptees feat. aka Dan a Fung Bros. video featuring aka DAN, a south Korean adoptee. To the point, fun, and relatable.
aka DAN documentary South Korean adoptee, YouTube famous rapper aka DAN, returns to Korea to meet his birthfamily, including his twin brother. Very creative, thoroughly enjoyable. He was in charge of his own narrative and I really respect that.
Are all adoptees hypervigilant? by Yes I'm adopted, Don't Make it Weird -- two South Korean adoptees
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