I’ve written a long feature piece for the Asia Society’s blog ChinaFile about abduction and adoption in China and how it relates to the US. Here’s the first paragraph; you can read the rest here. In March 2011, Rose Candis had the worst lunch of her life. Sitting at a restaurant in Shaoguan, a...
UPDATE: I didn’t expect this to happen so soon, but Foreign Policy has published a freelance article I wrote on the problem of kidnapped children in China. I think it’s a good primer on the issue in general and some of our subjects in specific. You can check it out here. Longtime readers of...
Any foreigner who has traveled to China has seen its beggar children, often alone, wandering the streets in search of spare change. It is a sad sight, and the unseen background is sadder: most of these children are kidnapped or otherwise forced away from their families. Often their families have no idea where they...
Thoughts on China’s Big Child Trafficking Bust (and Comments Policy Revised)
Thoughts on the Child Kidnapping Bust For the past few days, news of China’s big kidnapping bust has been making the rounds. In case you’ve missed it, here are the basic details, via Shanghaiist: Chinese authorities have arrested over 600 individuals related to child trafficking in a joint operation which involved more than 5,000...
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