National Geographic - China's Lost Girls
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Actor: Lisa LingBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: 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)
Studio: National Geographic Video
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- Due to cultural, social and economic factors, traditional Chinese preference leans toward boys, so girls are often hidden, aborted, or abandoned. As a result, tens of thousands of girls end up in orphanages across China. Today, more than one quarter of all babies adopted from abroad by American families come from China. Lisa Ling joins some of these families as they travel to China to meet their n
DVD Reviews of National Geographic - China's Lost Girls
DVD Review: a decent overview of a complex topic
Summary: 3 Stars
The main focus of this film is the adoption of little Chinese girls by American parents. As an adoptive parent myself (though not from China), I can fully relate to the palpable sense of anxious excitement, so powerfully portrayed here, as the parents-to-be prepare to meet their daughters.
Many of the scenes with the adoptive parents are touching, but the one I found the most moving is when the mother of a girl adopted several years earlier goes back to the park where she had been abandoned, and posts a sign letting people know that the little girl is doing fine. I can only hope that the birth mother has seen that sign.
The movie touches on some very serious social issues, in particular the widening gender imbalance that has resulted from China's one-child policy and a cultural preference for boys. I would have liked a much more in-depth analysis of these issues; but with only about 45 minutes to work with, I suppose there just wasn't enough time.
Several adoptees are interviewed when they're about 7 or 8 years old, and asked about their feelings. Almost all of them seemed ambivalent about having been adopted, or even somewhat sad about it. It would have been nice to see more balance here.
Aside from being Asian, Lisa Ling adds little to the presentation that couldn't have been handled by any competent fifth-grade reporter for the school paper. I've never seen her before, so I don't know if she's supposed to be considered a serious journalist. But here she seemed much too light-weight for such an important topic.
So, all in all, it's a decent overview of what it's like when adoptive parents meet their new children, and at least it doesn't ignore some underlying issues. But it would have been much better at about twice the length and four times the depth.
DVD Review: Lisa Ling is a TERRIBLE host...
Summary: 1 Stars
Just witnessed some of the worst hosting ever-
--Lisa Ling assumes a condescending and judgmental attitude throughout the video China's reasons for the one-child policy. Most tactless is her asking several boys if they were "spoiled."
--Lisa, ignorant of the major Chinese dialects, persists in speaking Cantonese to a bunch of kids who speak Mandarin. Out of thousands of truly bilingual English-Chinese speakers, how did Nat'l Geo. end up with her?! Her Chinese ancestry is useless in China.
--Lisa asks some very dumb questions, throughout the video. E.G., To a woman abducted to be someone's wife: "Were you scared when you got kidnapped?" It's as if she was trying to elicit some sensationalism, while sacrifing hard reporting on real issues.
DVD Review: Life Changer
Summary: 5 Stars
Enjoyed the story. Gave real world of what to expect in the final adoption process. Worth the view for expecting adoptors involved in the adoption process. DVD Review: Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
Fantastic story. Lisa Ling as a journalist is far better than as an actor. If you watch this, you'll be even more impressed with Ling's documentary in Nepal.DVD Review: China's Lost Girls
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a great story about the Chinese Law about the one child rule and how many want boys, leaving many girls in orphanges.
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Due to cultural social and economic factors traditional Chinese preference leans toward boys so girls are often hidden aborted or abandoned. As a result tens of thousands of girls end up in orphanages across China. Today more than one quarter of all babies adopted from abroad by American families come from China. Lisa Ling joins some of these families as they travel to China to meet their new daughters for the first time. Along this emotional journey she shares in the joy of these growing families and also witnesses firsthand China's gender gap its roots and its possible repercussions.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC:?727994750963General DVDs
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