National Geographic - China's Lost Girls
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Canada DVD detailsActor: Lisa LingBrand: Warner Brothers DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 40 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-03-01 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Model: G75096 Studio: National Geographic Video Product features:
DVD Reviews of National Geographic - China's Lost GirlsDVD Review: feel-good piece that should have covered more
Lisa Ling supposedly analyzes the phenomenon of American (solely white Americans here) adopting Chinese girls. This work is meant to show that the process is perfectly complimentary. Chinese girls need parents and American adults want children: the push factors are presented as equal to the pull factors here. Americans are teary-eyed about seeing their adoptive daughters for the first time and older Chinese-American girls are interviewed saying how happy they are to be in their current living situation. Many of the American parents have Southern twangs in this documentary, but there is no discussion on whether transnational adoption is more frequent in different regions of the United States. The film pays especial attention to gender oppression in China. It covers the "bare branches" dynamic in which the predominance of boys will lead to a lack of wives for the next generation of Chinese men. This work is clearly meant to make adopting Americans and adopted Chinese-American girls feel good about themselves. Lisa Ling, tacitly, stands as the bridge between the two parties. She symbolizes what these adopted girls can become. As a Chinese-American happily overseeing this process, it is as if she metaphorically gives her stamp of approval to this process.
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