One Child Nation
After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8923482/
Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China - Kay Ann Johnson
Johnson untangles the complex interactions between these social practices and the government's population policies. She also documents the many unintended consequences, including the overcrowding of orphanages that led China to begin international adoptions.
Those touched by adoption from China want to know why so many healthy infant girls are in Chinese orphanages. Johnson's research overturns stereotypes and challenges the conventional wisdom on abandonment and adoption in modern China.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/181420
“Intersectional Adoption: My Lived Experience” - Allie De Lacy
Adoption is an intrinsically messy and complicated thing, that is too often dismissed as over-extended charity work. Allie De Lacy will give her perspective on both sides of this nuance; the positives and negatives of interracial and international adoption. Allie will give her perspective as someone with lived experience. Often encountering people talking about adoption as a theoretical concept, it is not a hypothetical situation to Allie- it is her life, her identity. That is an empowering concept in itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMq6BcsyDUg
The Body Keeps The Score -Dr. von der Kolk
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing
Trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring—specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score offers proven alternatives to drugs and talk therapy—and a way to reclaim lives.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score
Small Happiness: Women of Chinese Village (1984) - Dir. Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon
An exploration of sexual politics and the reality of life in contemporary rural China. Filmed under unprecedented circumstances, Chinese women of Long Bow speak frankly about footbindings, the new birth control policy, work, love and marriage.
https://mubi.com/films/small-happiness-women-of-a-chinese-village
China’s Hidden Children - Kay Ann Johnson
In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It’s generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China’s approach to population control, but there is also the underlying belief that the majority of adoptees are daughters because the One-Child Policy often collides with the traditional preference for a son. While there is some truth to this, it does not tell the full story—a story with deep personal resonance to Kay Ann Johnson, a China scholar and mother to an adopted Chinese daughter.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo22977673.html
“ Made in China, Grown in the USA” - Josie Leydenfrost
Josie Leydenfrost is 17 and a junior at Pioneer High School. As a Chinese adoptee, she passionate about sharing her experiences growing up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz_Mre4lg6s