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Mei Mei Little Sister: Portraits from a Chinese Orphanage

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Publisher: Chronicle Books
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The Chinese believe an unseen red thread joins those in this life who are destined to connect. For photographer Richard Bowen, that thread led him to China's state-run welfare institutions, where there are thousands of children, primarily girls, growing up without families to take care of them. Mei Mei presents a poignant glimpse of just a few of these remarkable children. Composed against neutral backgrounds, these portraits capture the girls’ inner lives, away from their often bleak surroundings. The images show an almost endless range of expressions: small faces filled with longing and hope, joy and sadness, humor and mischief, defiance and despair. Through the camera's eye these young children are no longer orphans, but individuals whose personalities are as vital, distinct, and beautiful as any mother's child. When that unique human being comes into focus, the connection is made and the red thread becomes visible. And once seen, the bond can never be broken.


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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.25092
EAN: 9780811847346
ISBN: 0811847349
Label: Chronicle Books
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2005-07-21
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Studio: Chronicle Books


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SIMILAR ITEMS:

• National Geographic - China's Lost Girls
• The Lost Daughters of China: Adopted Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past
• China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood
• Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China
• Found in China


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Summary: A book that stirs action
Comment: This book was given to me as a gift by someone who knew I have a strong bond with children from China. Each page I turned brought memories flooding back of the time I spent caring for children just like these, behind the walls of the secretive orphanage. Some of the haunting expressions are reminders of those I saw on a daily basis. When I feel my memories of China fading, I pull out the book to take me back. I believe a person cannot look through it and avoid being stirred to action to do something to help the cause of lost children in China.

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Summary: Beautiful book
Comment: We enjoyed the pictures of the girls. Glad that it was done in black and white. There are so many faces and expressions in the book - but its very hard to tell what they are truely thinking. We too have a "little sister" who's still in an orphanage in China. It would be a good book for those daughters that have already been found to have a book of portraits of their mei mei's who are still waiting for their forever families to find and come for them.
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Summary: Touching
Comment: This book touches my soul every time I open it. I have adopted two girls from China and I see their reflections on every page.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful book!
Comment: We are in the process of adopting a baby from China, and this book just made my heart break. The images are so beautiful, and the children are so precious! In my mind, they seem to be simply be waiting... We can't wait to give one of them a home.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Heartbreaking
Comment: As an adoptive parent of a beautiful Chinese girl, I became extremely upset when I viewed these pictures. But by the grace of God, my daughter could have been featured in this book. That thought and the pictures of these children absolutely broke my heart. The pictures are beautiful but left me with a sense of helplessness because you can't save them all....although you want to. I returned the book because it was just too upsetting. I was torn between giving the book 5 stars because of the impact it has, but gave it 3 so someone might read this review and think twice about viewing it. It was not worth it for me.

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