tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post5832353327164119946..comments2024-02-27T00:41:15.985-06:00Comments on AdoptionTalk: New Book: Message From an Unknown Chinese Mothermalindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233439015219192874noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-63823457981878057402011-04-25T21:46:31.817-05:002011-04-25T21:46:31.817-05:00the comment left by "Anonymous" is reall...the comment left by "Anonymous" is really mean and weird. You think if people cannot conceive that they should not adopt? You sound like a very ignorant and unfeeling person.lanlan88https://www.blogger.com/profile/08728783346956787161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-60078451076279051272010-10-13T12:16:15.719-05:002010-10-13T12:16:15.719-05:00You're naive to think that this does not still...You're naive to think that this does not still happen in China. As long as there's a market in the west for Chinese babies, for parents who should have never conceived, or decided to have kids "late in life", there will be a thriving industry of gendercide and baby girl trafficking. Your comments are telling and are clearly worded to give yourself, and other selfish individuals like you, comfort. Open your Entitled eyes. If you weren't able to conceive, maybe that's the universe telling you something. Why help perpetrate an industry that, in the US or Canada, would be considered a capital crime. Shame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-40455492501462637412010-03-03T14:43:16.601-06:002010-03-03T14:43:16.601-06:00Can't wait to read this..Thanks for posting ab...Can't wait to read this..Thanks for posting about it.the mommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17172388785306063172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-43264852972307448052010-02-09T12:38:26.079-06:002010-02-09T12:38:26.079-06:00Malinda,
Did you heard about this book. Tower se...Malinda, <br /><br />Did you heard about this book. Tower sent the money back becuase they didnt receive the book!<br /><br />If you all now where I can buy it, let me know.<br /><br />Thanks<br />Mei-LingMi Hilo Rojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10115043312614157872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-46180873059362029642010-01-24T18:58:36.359-06:002010-01-24T18:58:36.359-06:00I don't know if it was a law of that era or si...I don't know if it was a law of that era or simply a tradition dating back to hundreds of years in China that girls did not receive land. At any rate, it was very true. I grew up in China in the 70's. My maternal grandparents, who were farmers in the countryside, did not receive any land under the name of my mother. And because my mother was their only live child (3 other siblings died of starvation from 1959 through 1961 due to Mao's Great Leap Forward political Campaign), my grandparents only received a very small parcel of land. Abandoning baby girls in China was still common even up to the year 2000. I heard of an incredible story of an abandoned baby girl in a suburb of Beijing in early 1999, which touched me so much that I started a project to rescue abandoned babies in China. Reading your blog and others have helped me get a better idea of how to go about "rescuing" these babies without becoming an enabler of baby abduction or arrogant religious nut.<br /><br />It's hard being girls from poor families in China. Some unforunate baby girls used to be killed right after birth. Today many middle school girls in inner provinces like Guizhou, Guangxi and Sichuan are being forced into prostitution and oftentime to service local Communist leaders. Forced prostitution of young girls is a big unjustice in China today. Many policies in China are just so ridiculous that outsiders would not even believe them. Growing up in the 70's in China, we were not even allowed to grow vegetables to feed ourselves when we were so hungry because government hand-out (food) was so little. We raised chickens and ducks in the countryside but government confiscated them as soon as the officials found out. My family had a "weekend home" (for lack of a better word) in the mountain where we raised and kept our livestock to feed our family. <br /><br />Yeah right. China is a wonderful country!A Chinese Dadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-52265570395587318012010-01-24T17:44:48.196-06:002010-01-24T17:44:48.196-06:00It was Chairman Mao who sent up the grain policy a...It was Chairman Mao who sent up the grain policy and thus, many feel he is responsible for the overpopulation problem. This was a time when people were starving, and any child over the age of 3 years (I think that was the age) received grain as an adult. Now, I have never read that there was a gender component to the grain laws especially in an era where women where suppose to be holding up half the sky (although clearly, it is a possibility.)<br /><br />MimiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-13241384211567122752010-01-24T07:07:35.751-06:002010-01-24T07:07:35.751-06:00it's available on amazon.co.uk
http://www.ama...it's available on amazon.co.uk<br /><br />http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0701184035/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1264338411&sr=1-2&condition=all<br /><br />they ship internationally.meadownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-80335530475348655412010-01-23T21:22:25.701-06:002010-01-23T21:22:25.701-06:00"It's not a child," she interrupted...."It's not a child," she interrupted. "It's a girl baby, and we can't keep it."<br /><br />Chilling.<br /><br />Thank you for this and for keeping on top of the Haiti discussions. Truly appreciate all of your research.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00862203355411742734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-25152498007306356782010-01-23T20:06:15.397-06:002010-01-23T20:06:15.397-06:00Tower Books appears to have the book available for...Tower Books appears to have the book available for preorder and scheduled to be released on February 4, 2010. <br /><br />http://www.tower.com/message-from-unknown-chinese-mother-xinran-hardcover/wapi/113818305Michelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06610073131058763517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-90790451082436544202010-01-23T19:27:33.837-06:002010-01-23T19:27:33.837-06:00I look forward to reading this. As to the land law...I look forward to reading this. As to the land laws, I do remember reading somewhere (perhaps "Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son?") that families received more land for sons, but not for daughters. It referenced inheritance laws.a Tonggu Mommahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01365812914466181060noreply@blogger.com