Research-China Org

12/15/2025

I am always stunned by the powerlessness of many birth families when pressured by paternal grandparents to relinquish a female child. Today’s match is to an adoptee whose paternal grandfather took it upon himself to take her from her birth family and bring her to the orphanage. Needless to say, the birth parents have been searching ever since.

11/20/2025

We have a few extra copies of our orphanage data books to find a home for. They are $30 each plus $5 shipping (Normally $45 plus shipping).

Yongzhou, Hunan (includes Dao, Jiangyong, Lanshan, Lingling, Ningyuan, Qiyang, and Shaungpai area orphanages)

Yiyang (Yi & Yin) and Yuanjiang, Hunan

Yangjiang/Jiangcheng, Guangdong

Hengdong/Hengshan/Qidong, Hunan

These data books contain the finding data for every adoptee after July 1999. It is a bird's eye view of the adoption forest of each orphanage.

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10/23/2025

One major underappreciated source of information for an adoptee is their foster family. These families often have photos, history, and birth family information. We have the foster family contact information for thousands of adoptees.

Check our lists and see if your name is there. If so, email for pricing.

 We have foster family contact information for the following children adopted from the Huanggang orphanage, Hubei Province.  Please check your child's Chinese characters against those on this list to verify a match. 

05/18/2025

Attention families and adoptees in the New York City area: Barbara Demick will be speaking at the Strand Bookstore tomorrow. I am reading the book currently, and all I can say that it is an exquisite read -- very informative, very well articulated. If you want to learn about "old China" and understand the pressures and challenges of birth families, read this book. The story is riveting.

I will be reviewing it when I am done, but if you have a chance to see her tomorrow, grab it. Adoptees are free to come.

05/10/2025

In the spirit of Mother's Day, we announce the addition of five adoptees to our Huanggang foster family listing. Adoptees should check our foster family lists to see if we have met your foster family. These families often have photos, records and information of great importance to adoptees. (Photo added as an example of some of the pictures we have taken in our visits with foster families).

https://research-china-fosterfamily.blogspot.com/

03/24/2025

Attention all adoptees: A few of you may not be aware of the decades of research, videos, and newspaper finding notices we have about you. If you were born and adopted after 1999, there is a good chance we have information about you. Email us with your orphanage name, orphanage, birth date and finding date if you have it, and we will let you know what we have for you.

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01/29/2025

Happy Chinese New Years!! Hot pot is ready! Come over if you are in the neighborhood!!

10/31/2024

We welcome the following essay from an adoptee we have known for over two decades. She was adopted from our eldest daughter's orphanage, and we met her and her family at several orphanage reunions I organized in the early 2000's. We last saw this adoptee in 2006 at our last reunion.

But last year she emailed me, reminding me of who she was, and asking for help in locating her birth family. Given our long history, Lan and I decided it would be possible to organize a joint trip of the adoptee and her parents with Lan, since our oldest daughter was also from the same area. This is the first adoptee that Lan has accompanied to China to search, and we were interested to see what results such a search project would bring. With the help of this adoptee and her family, combined with the data we already possessed for this orphanage, a total of 67 birth families were located and tested. When everyone had returned home, I asked the adoptee to write down her thoughts and "take aways" from the trip. What follows are her deepest impressions.

We welcome the following essay from an adoptee we have known for over two decades. She was adopted from our eldest daughter's orphanage, and...

05/20/2024

We have republished our listing of children adopted from Ruijin orphanage in Jiangxi Province for whom we have located foster families. Our foster family blog contains the names of thousands of adoptees for whom foster families have been located.

We have located the following children from the Ruijin orphanage in Jiangxi Province. Updated: December 9, 2015 Jin Ai Hong / 金爱红 ...

12/01/2023

I've just learned that the award-winning documentary "One Child Nation" is available for free streaming:

One Child Nation (2019) Watch HD Stream English

11/14/2023

Beautiful and heart-felt film following Grace and her birth family. Bring Kleenex.

China enforced the One-Child Policy for 36 years from 1979 to 2015 in order to combat overpopulation. In it, any family having more than one child would be subject to harsh fines. Due to the status associated with male heirs, the policy led many families to give up their newborn daughters, ending up...

09/22/2023

To anyone that can understand Dutch, last night saw the completion of a four-part Chinese adoptee's documentary "De Afhaalchinees" ("The Chinese Takeaway"). We are proud to have helped Kelly understand the probable backstory to her adoption (episode 3). This doc looks at adoption through the eyes of the adoptees, and it is poignant and thought-provoking. Watch it if you can!

Veel adoptiekinderen hebben geen idee wanneer, waar en onder welke naam ze ter wereld zijn gekomen. Hoeveel kan een papiertje betekenen voor je gevoel van identiteit?