Chinese Adoptees in US Return Home for Visits

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Mei Fong, As Chinese Adoptees Return Home, a New Genre Tells Their Tales. China Real Time, Nov 14, 2014
blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/11/14/as-chinas-adoptees-return-home-a-new-genre-tells-their-tales/
("of the more than 120,000 children brought into Western homes from China since the early 1990s * * * mostly girls")


Note:
(a) The website of the author/reporter Mei Fong:
meifong.org/

Like almost all names in this report, she does not have a Chinese name.

(b) "In 'Touching Home,' Jennie Lytel-Sternberg and Maya Ludtke spend a month in their rural hometowns in Jiangsu, north of Shanghai, making friends with locals their own age. With their new friends as guides, they get a hint of what their lives could have been like if they hadn’t been adopted: anthropomorphic food, no dating, lots of exams."
(i) The e-book

Maya Ludtke, Touching Home in China; in search of Missing girlhoods 似曾相识的家. Touching Home Publishing (ie, publisher is author herself), Aug 2, 2014
touchinghomeinchina.com/

is about two Massachusetts teenagers’ return to their rural China roots.
(ii) anthropomorphic (adj):
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthropomorphic

(c) "It [documentary] is the culmination of six-plus years of work, from 12-year-old Ricki’s first bewildered meeting with her birth parents to the 18-year-old’s extended sojourn in her hometown of Quanzhou 福建省 泉州市, southwest of Shanghai."
(i) Characters. Ricki's Promise 承诺; A film by Changfu Chang.
www.rickispromise.com/characters/

is a 2014 documentary.
(ii) Changfu Chang 張長富, Professor of Communications, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, undated
www.millersville.edu/commtheatre/faculty/c_chang.php
(PhD, Purdue University, 2000)

is "a native of Jiangsu Province, China."
(iii) Millersville University of Pennsylvania
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millersville_University_of_Pennsylvania
(public; located in Millersville [in Lancaster County; state capital Harrisburg is in the neighboring county[, Pennsylvania; offering programs embracing the liberal arts; one of 14 universities within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education)