“Mom, I'm tired of all the China stuff,” my Chinese-born niece once complained, voicing a simple truism: while adoptive parents might want their children to be familiar with their native culture, not every child will want the same. A Canadian documentary built around interviews with families from Newfoundland, Quebec, and British Columbia, Karin Lee's award-winning Made in China: The Story of Adopted Children from China features adopted children expressing a variety of opinions: some are interested in their birth parents, some are not, but most are not bothered by being a “noticeable minority” as one mother puts it, or “obviously adopted.” In one interesting segment, when a family goes to China to visit, a Chinese gentleman berates a Canadian boy for not answering him when spoken to, and is visibly irritated to find an ethnic Chinese who can't speak the language--reminding us all that issues related to race and ethnicity are worldwide. Recommended for larger parenting collections in public libraries. Aud: P. (R. Reagan)
Made in China
(2000) 45 min. $29.95. ChinaSprout. PPR. Color cover. ISBN: 0-9707332-2-4. Volume 17, Issue 6
Made in China
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