{"product_id":"daughters-of-the-bamboo-grove-paperback","title":"Daughters Of The Bamboo Grove (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection by the government because she already had two daughters. Two years later, an American couple travelled to Shaoyang to adopt a Chinese toddler they thought had been abandoned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir understanding had been that China's brutal one-child policy was leading to hundreds of abandoned girls, desperate for the care of adopted parents. What they didn't know - and what award-winning journalist Barbara Demick uncovered in 2007, while working as a correspondent in Beijing - was that their daughter had been snatched from her beloved family and her identical twin. Under China's one-child policy hundreds of poor Chinese were giving up their children due to soaring fines and threats of violence. More sinister still, international demand for adoptees was sky-rocketing, and local officials were forcibly seizing children and trafficking them to orphanages, who were selling them abroad.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDaughters of the Bamboo Grove\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells the gripping story of separated twins, their respective fates in China and the USA, and Barbara Demick's role in reuniting them against huge odds. Painting a rich portrait of China's history and culture, it asks questions about the roots, impact and consequences of China's one-child policy, the ethics of international adoption, and, ultimately, the assumptions and narratives we hold about the quality of lives lived in the East and the West.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barbara Demick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178760126642,"sku":"9781783787258","price":325.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781783787258.jpg?v=1776062664","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/daughters-of-the-bamboo-grove-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}