The Adoption Plan: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism by Neubauer, Jack
The Adoption Plan: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism by Neubauer, Jack

The Adoption Plan: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism

During the tumultuous years of World War II and the Cold War, new global humanitarian ideas and...
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Author: Jack Neubauer
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The Adoption Plan: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism by Neubauer, Jack

The Adoption Plan: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism

$151.00
The Adoption Plan: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism by Neubauer, Jack

The Adoption Plan: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism

$151.00
Author: Jack Neubauer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

During the tumultuous years of World War II and the Cold War, new global humanitarian ideas and practices coalesced around the cause of saving the children in China. How did China's children become archetypal victims who ignited a new global humanitarian imagination? And who would prevail in the transnational contest to control the vast quantities of aid flowing into China on their behalf?

The Adoption Plan offers a new history of the rise of global humanitarianism that places the recipients, administrators, and critics of humanitarian aid in China at the center of the story. Analyzing how the "adoption plan" for international child sponsorship became one of the most popular fundraising strategies for humanitarian work in China and across the world, Jack Neubauer explores how the globalization of humanitarian aid was linked to new practices of global intimacy that enabled donors to build personal relationships with Chinese children across geographic and cultural divides. Drawing on hundreds of letters written by Chinese children to foreign sponsors and extensive research in Chinese archives, Neubauer shows how China's Nationalist and Communist parties mobilized the emotional bonds between children and sponsors to secure international support for their competing political projects. By the 1950s, child sponsorship and international adoption had become the most hotly contested humanitarian programs in Cold War East Asia.

Upending the conventional view of humanitarianism as a tool of Western influence, The Adoption Plan demonstrates that it was often the Chinese recipients of aid who were best able to control its material and ideological uses.

Author: Jack Neubauer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 03/18/2025
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780231218030

About the Author
Jack Neubauer is a historian of China and the modern world. He was previously an assistant professor of history at National Chengchi University in Taiwan.
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