Love Without Borders

For more than three decades into the early 21st Century, China's effort to curb population growth through the "one-child policy" created a wave of abandoned Chinese infants, most of them girls. Around 160,000 of these Chinese children found homes abroad, with more than half of them joining American families.

International adoptions should be a beautiful story of familial love transcending national boundaries. However, when the unintended fallout from the one-child policy came to light, it captured Western media attention, making China's international adoption program a controversial subject.

This book offers a unique blend of Chinese and Western perspectives. The author, a Chinese civil servant who also oversaw a local orphanage, is a scholar with an international outlook. The book explores human relationships: familial bonds that transcend biological links, the continuing connection of the adoptees and their families with their homeland in China, and the special relationship that developed between the author and families who adopted daughters from his jurisdiction.

In an era of unprecedented geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, this book highlights an overwhelmingly positive aspect of the relationship between citizens of these two great nations, offering much-needed inspiration and hope.,

Author: Ni Wencai
Publisher: Earnshaw Books Ltd
Published: 07/22/2025
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9789888904211

About the Author
Wencai, Ni: - Ni Wencai came of age in the early days of the Post-Mao era. He holds a B.A. in Law from Nanjing Normal University, and a M.A.in Economics from Macquarie University in Australia. He had a three-decades career in the county government of his hometown Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province, serving as Deputy Mayor, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and Chairman of the Gaoyou People's Political Consultative Conference. Ni Wencai's interests extend far beyond his bureaucratic duties. He is an avid historian, writer and philatelist, and has continued to be a prolific scholar and writer in his official retirement. Aside from Love Without Borders, his publications include《故事里 的故事-1931年高邮特大洪灾和运堤修复历史再现纪实》The 1931 Flood Disaster at Gaoyou and Restoration of the Canal Dykes; the historical novel 《驿站风云》Storms Over the Postal Station, which became the basis for a popular television series; and numerous articles about local historical figures and events. He is the honorary president of the National Philatelist Museum in Gaoyou.Ling, Vivian: - Vivian Ling has enjoyed a long career teaching Chinese language and literature at Oberlin College and Indiana University, and directing language and cultural immersion programs in Taipei, Shanghai, Kunming and Beijing. She is the author of many academic books, including The Field of Chinese Language Education in the U.S.: A Retrospective of the 20th Century. In retirement, she has reoriented her work to bring Chinese culture out of its academic niche into the mainstream of our interconnected world today. Her recent publications include A Bilingual Treasury of Chinese Folktales and The Twelve Animals of the Chinese Zodiac, both designed for all readers young at heart.