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Daughters of the bamboo grove : from China to America, a true story of abduction, adoption, and separated twins

Daughters of the bamboo grove : from China to America, a true story of abduction, adoption, and separated twins

Book 2025

"On a warm day in September 2000, a twenty-eight-year-old woman named Zanhua gave birth to twin girls in a small hut nestled in bamboo behind her brother's rural home in China's Hunan province. The twins, Fangfang and Shuangjie, were welcome additions to her young family but also not her first children. Hidden in the hut, they were born under the shadow of China's notorious one-child policy. Fearing the ire of family planning officials, Zanhua an...