Sara K. Dorow is Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. She is the author of When You Were Born in China: A Memory Book for Children Adopted in China and I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children.

"This is a fascinating project, a book that (at last!) gives the phenomenon of transnational China/U.S. adoption the sustained, serious attention that it deserves." - Laura Briggs,author of Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico "The book is useful, too, to sociologists and antropologists who seek to understand how American kinship norms and narratives are changing with America's shifting demographic landscape." (American Journal of Sociology)

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Adoption Moves1. Why China? Identifying Histories 2. Matches Made on Earth: Making Parents and Children for Each Other 3. Picturing Kinship 4. Client, Ambassador, and Gift: Managing Adoption Exchange 5. Shamian Island: Borders of Belonging 6. Storied Origins: Abandonment, Adoption, and Motherhood 7. American Ghosts: Cultural Identities, Racial Constructions Conclusion: Akin to Di?erence Notes Bibliography Index About the Author v

Sara K. Dorow is Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. She is the author of When You Were Born in China: A Memory Book for Children Adopted in China and I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children.

"This is a fascinating project, a book that (at last!) gives the phenomenon of transnational China/U.S. adoption the sustained, serious attention that it deserves." - Laura Briggs,author of Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico "The book is useful, too, to sociologists and antropologists who seek to understand how American kinship norms and narratives are changing with America's shifting demographic landscape." (American Journal of Sociology)

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Adoption Moves1. Why China? Identifying Histories 2. Matches Made on Earth: Making Parents and Children for Each Other 3. Picturing Kinship 4. Client, Ambassador, and Gift: Managing Adoption Exchange 5. Shamian Island: Borders of Belonging 6. Storied Origins: Abandonment, Adoption, and Motherhood 7. American Ghosts: Cultural Identities, Racial Constructions Conclusion: Akin to Di?erence Notes Bibliography Index About the Author v

Sara K. Dorow is Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. She is the author of When You Were Born in China: A Memory Book for Children Adopted in China and I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children.

"This is a fascinating project, a book that (at last!) gives the phenomenon of transnational China/U.S. adoption the sustained, serious attention that it deserves." - Laura Briggs,author of Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico "The book is useful, too, to sociologists and antropologists who seek to understand how American kinship norms and narratives are changing with America's shifting demographic landscape." (American Journal of Sociology)

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Adoption Moves1. Why China? Identifying Histories 2. Matches Made on Earth: Making Parents and Children for Each Other 3. Picturing Kinship 4. Client, Ambassador, and Gift: Managing Adoption Exchange 5. Shamian Island: Borders of Belonging 6. Storied Origins: Abandonment, Adoption, and Motherhood 7. American Ghosts: Cultural Identities, Racial Constructions Conclusion: Akin to Di?erence Notes Bibliography Index About the Author v