'断桥认亲'

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(1) 断桥会：一个被领养的中国女孩故事. BBC Chinese, Dec 12, 2017 (video of 5 minutes 15 seconds long).
www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/media-42312887

(2) Enig Tsui, South China Morning Post Magazine, Dec 3, 2017.
http://www.scmp.com/magazines/po ... family-miraculously
(22-year-old Kati (nickname of Catherine Su Pohler) 徐静芝: birth father 徐礼达 and birth mother 钱粉香

Note:
(a) Enig TSUI  徐晓瑜 (female; formerly of financial times)
(i) Enid (given name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_(given_name)
(ii) Tsui. 华人姓氏查询, 洛杉矶华人资讯网, undated
http://www.chineseinla.com/lastname/key_tsui.html

Familiar with both Taiwanese and Cantonese, I will say 崔 is pronounced slightly differently in the two languages.

(b) "Xu Lida * * * had cut the [umbilical] cord [脐带; umbilicus itself is 肚脐眼] with a pair of scissors he had sterilised with boiling water and, for a do-it-yourself delivery, all seemed to be going well – until the placenta wouldn’t drop. It was a dangerous complication"

Daniela Anne Carusi, Placenta Accreta: Myths and Facts. Brigham and Women's Hospital, possibly 2014.
https://brighamhealthhub.org/fiv ... ut-placenta-accreta
(i) Carusi is plural or possessive of Italian surname Caruso, The latter is from an adjective caruso, meaning "close-cropped" -- hair cut short (for young men of fashion in Middle Ages).
(ii) Brigham and Women's Hospital is one of many teaching hospital fo Harvard Medical School.
(iii) placenta accreta  植入性胎盘 (Basically chorionic villi 绒毛膜绒毛 (chorion 绒毛膜 being part of placenta) grow deep into the uterus.)
placenta previa (or praevia)  前置胎盘
(iv) Latin-English dictionary:
* acccretus (masculine; feminine: accreta; both are perfect passive participle of verb accrescō grow up, increase)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accretus
* praevius (adjective masculine; feminine: praevia; from [prefix] prae- before; in front + [noun feminine] via road; way): "going before, leading the way"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/praevius#Latin

(c) "on the eve of the Qixi Festival this year, [birth mother and father] Qian and Xu finally laid eyes on Jingzhi – their healthy, intelligent college student daughter * * * a television crew was on hand at the Broken Bridge to capture the scene as Qian and Xu ran to Kati, as she is called by everyone who knows her. The story of how they were reunited is the subject of a BBC docu­mentary that will air this week."

See (1).

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(d) "Baby Jingzhi and the note were delivered to Suzhou city's children's welfare institute 苏州市儿童福利院. Around the same time, Ken and Ruth Pohler [a German surname; Low German noun Pohl muddy pool] of Hudsonville, Michigan, decided to adopt."
(i) Hudsonville, Michigan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudsonville,_Michigan
(a city; The population was 7,116 at the 2010 census; was named for Homer E Hudson, a pioneer settler)

is 12-mile air distance southwest of

Grand Rapids, Michigan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Rapids,_Michigan
(the second-largest city in Michigan [after Detroit's some 700,000]; As of the 2010 census, the city population was 188,040; on the Grand River [the longest river in Michigan; 252 miles; emptying into Lake Michigan]; Grand Rapids is the hometown of Gerald Ford)
(ii) Louis Campau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Campau
(1791 – 1871)

section 3 Grand Rapids: "Campau became known as the official founder of Grand Rapids. In 1826, Campau built his cabin, trading post, and blacksmith shop on the east bank of the Grand River near the rapids [nd in 1833 named his tract 'Grand Rapids']

(e) "In the summer of 1996, 10 American couples were taken by Bethany Christian Services, one of the biggest international adoption agencies for Americans, to the Suzhou orphanage. * * * Calvin College, the liberal arts university [in fact a college; the reporter is not native speaker of English] affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church [1857- ; Headquarters Grand Rapids, Michigan and Burlington, Ontario] * * * where Kati is now studying public health and music."
(i)
(A) Our History. Bethany Christian Services, undated
https://www.bethany.org/about-us/our-history
(1944- ; based in Grand Rapids)
(B) Bethany (biblical village)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethany_(biblical_village)
(section 2 Etymology: unsettled)

is "less than 2 miles (3.2 km) from Jerusalem" according to the Wiki page for al-Eizariya (modern-day Arab town where Bethany was believed to be there).
(ii) Calvin College
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_College
(1876- ; located in Grand Rapids; is named after John Calvin)

(f) " 'I had a solid, good childhood [in Michigan],' Kati says * * * 'My Xiaochen 徐晓晨 [her first daughter] here has never had to wash a single bowl,' she says.  Qian and Xu grew up in Baoying county 江苏省扬州市宝应县, near Yangzhou in Jiangsu province – birthplace of the world's most famous rice dish 扬州炒饭. * * * Qian runs the shop [selling second-hand electrical appliances] – a sectioned-off area in a vast, open-air electrical appliances wholesale market * * * She waits for business as she shuffles between rows of washing machines, flat-screen televisions and refrigerators her husband has acquired and upcycled."  (brackets original).
(i) The "she" or "her" refers to the birth mother.
(ii) solid (adj): "of good substantial quality or kind"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solid
(iii) section off
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/section%20off
(iv) upcycle (vt; 1990s)
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/upcycle

(g) "documentary maker Chang Changfu 张长富 * * * [Kati] had rheumatoid arthritis 风湿性关节炎 at a young age * * * Ken Pohler, who mentioned his daughter had a knee problem as a youngster."