Kay Ann Johnson is professor of Asian studies and political science at Hampshire College, where she also directs the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment. She is the author of several books, including Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son.
"After years of research, Johnson has unpacked a number of
misconceptions and misrepresentations. . . . Compared to much
writing about adoption, which plumbs the motivations of parents who
relinquish or adopt, or the local-level corruption of individual
agencies or middlemen, Johnson's focus is larger: on the government
of a huge country and how its social engineering efforts created a
widespread crisis for hundreds of thousands of children and their
families."
-- "New Republic" (6/6/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"Johnson continues her quest to uncover the hidden reality and
long-term consequences of China's family planning laws, which up
until 2016 prohibited more than one child per family. She provides
a thorough examination of the effects of the one-child policy on
rural families. In telling the stories of parents forced to abandon
daughters, Johnson debunks the myth that Chinese families
unequivocally favor sons. . . . This book is important for
challenging conventional assumptions that international adoption is
the only option for 'unwanted children.' Johnson's comprehensive
survey humanizes a rural population often overlooked in debates
over Chinese family planning policies."
-- "Publishers Weekly" (4/25/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"A searing, important, and eminently readable exploration of
China's one-child policy. China's Hidden Children lays bare how the
one-child policy actually unfolded and how so many adopted children
were not 'abandoned' in any normal sense of the word."
--Nicholas D. Kristof "New York Review of Books" (4/25/2016
12:00:00 AM)
"This is an important book. Johnson provides extraordinarily rich,
compelling evidence of what many Chinese families have done to hang
on to their daughters, or to adopt daughters from others--all in
the face of strong state restrictions and harsh punishments.
China's Hidden Children undermines simple descriptions of what has
been going on in China and corrects many misimpressions."--Nancy E.
Riley, coauthor of Making Families Through Adoption
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