介绍:
Early in September 1996, two girls were born eight days apart in the eastern province of Jiangsu. Each daughter was abandoned a day or so after her birth. They were found by strangers in two separate towns, and then driven by local police to an orphanage in Changzhou. Caretakers housed them in cribs on the overcrowded second-floor nursery. Nearly all these babies were healthy girls. If there was a boy, his disability was likely visible.
The girls were adopted by Americans, and in the summer of 2013, after each girl celebrated their 18th birthday, they returned to their hometowns with the help of their adoptive parents.
Their story, produced by one of the girls&`& adoptive mothers, Melissa Ludtke, is the subject of an upcoming iBook called "Touching Home in China: In Search of Missing Girlhoods." The media project&`&s Indigogo fundraiser, which began in October of 2014, has exceeded its original goal and raised nearly US$ 42,000.
The paths of Maya and Jennie take place in the shadow of China&`&s one-child policy, which imposed severe penalties on families that had more than one child. The vast majority of the children aborted or abandoned were girls, due to higher cultural valuation of male heirs.
As Ludtke details, when Maya and Jennie were about to enter the final year of their Boston high schools, they set out to travel to the towns in rural China where they had once been abandoned. Their mandarin was imperfect, at best. They looked into the future and imagined themselves as mothers and wives. The result was that Jennie and Maya bridged the chasm with girls they might have grown up with, despite the sharp differences of their upbringing.
For Caixin online, this is Samuel Liu.
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