Audiobook Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

Author:: Barbara Demick
Narrator:: Joy Osmanski
Content:: Unabridged (chapter list)
Length:: 10:52 h
Format:: MP3 download (429 MB)
Language:: English
Publisher:: Granta Books (2025)
Genres:: Anthologies, Biographies & Autobiographies
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01 - Chapter 1	0:14	1 MB
02 - Chapter 2	2:08	1 MB
03 - Chapter 3	32:57	21 MB
04 - Chapter 4	39:39	25 MB
05 - Chapter 5	23:07	14 MB
06 - Chapter 6	16:15	10 MB
07 - Chapter 7	30:59	19 MB
08 - Chapter 8	32:48	21 MB
09 - Chapter 9	23:35	15 MB
10 - Chapter 10	28:48	18 MB
11 - Chapter 11	17:42	11 MB
12 - Chapter 12	24:04	16 MB
13 - Chapter 13	21:11	14 MB
14 - Chapter 14	18:36	12 MB
15 - Chapter 15	19:57	13 MB
16 - Chapter 16	18:07	11 MB
17 - Chapter 17	25:35	16 MB
18 - Chapter 18	18:30	12 MB
19 - Chapter 19	19:22	12 MB
20 - Chapter 20	20:15	13 MB
21 - Chapter 21	15:13	10 MB
22 - Chapter 22	20:00	13 MB
23 - Chapter 23	20:23	13 MB
24 - Chapter 24	13:23	8 MB
25 - Chapter 25	13:27	9 MB
26 - Chapter 26	14:03	9 MB
27 - Chapter 27	18:46	12 MB
28 - Chapter 28	34:19	22 MB
29 - Chapter 29	33:07	22 MB
30 - Chapter 30	35:19	23 MB
31 - Chapter 31	0:34	1 MB

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Summary

In 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. Their 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.

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove 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.

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