Leslie K Wang

Outsourced Children

Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China

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Produktbeschreibung

Leslie K. Wang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780804799010
• ISBN-10: 0804799016
• Artikelnr.: 45000966

Autorenporträt

Leslie K. Wang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Children and the Politics of Outsourced Intimacy in China
2. Survival of the Fittest: Relinquished Children in an Era of "High
Quality"
3. From "Missing Girls" to America's Sweethearts: Adoption and the Reversal
of Fortune for Healthy Chinese Daughters
4. The West to the Rescue? Outsourced Intimacy in the Tomorrow's Children
Unit
5. The Limits of Outsourced Intimacy: Contested Logics of Care at the
Yongping Orphanage
6. Waiting Children Finally Belong: The Rise of Special Needs Adoption
7. Conclusion: Retying the Red Thread