Reunion Stories & Adoptee Voices
Connect with adoptees and their stories about finding birth families.
Read
Books
A Cherry Blossom in the Dead of Winter: A Memoir by a Chinese Adopted American by Autumn Coleman-Marconett
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins by Barbara Demick
Dit Is Ook China by Cindy Zhu Huijgen
A woman's journey as an adopted child returning to China as a correspondent. Available only in Dutch.
In the News
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‘Do I have siblings? Do they think about me or miss me?’ It feels like a part of me is missing.’: Transracial adoptee searches for biological family, ‘I’m embracing my roots’ | 2023
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‘We have never abandoned you’: A Chinese family’s search for their daughter | 2020
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Surreal similarities: Connecticut woman adopted from China discovers a sister | 2020
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Sechelt teen discovers sisters through genetic testing kit | 2020
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One is Chinese. One is American. How a journalist discovered and reunited identical twins | 2019
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Going Back to Their Roots | 2019
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DNA Helping Chinese adoptees do what was once impossible: Locate blood relatives in this country | 2019
Connect
Communities
Connecting adoptees across the globe
A mentorship program for Chinese adoptees that matches mentors with mentees.
Stories
Follow @adoptiepedia on Instagram
Een laagdrempelig en veilig platform voor Chinees geadopteerden in Nederland. Vol met informatie over Chinese adoptie. (An accessible and safe platform for Chinese adoptees in the Netherlands. Full of information about Chinese adoption.)
Follow @twoworldsofheart on Instagram to hear about her reunion journey
Follow @mynameislifang on Instagram to hear about her reunion journey and how ICSA helped.
Follow @somewherebetween.fam by Asian adoptees for Asian adoptees.
Follow 2 Journeys to 1 Family on Facebook biological sisters, both adopted from China, who found one another through 23andMe.
Follow A Chinese Adoptee’s Journey, a blog chronicling Qiao Fei’s journey of finding her birth family and the complexity of getting to know them.
Intercountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)
Voices of those with Lived Experience in Intercountry Adoption
Follow Angel and Jordan, students at Duke Kunshan University in Suzhou, Jiangsu - one native Chinese and the other an American Chinese adoptee.
Listen & Watch
Somewhere Between podcast - made by Asian adoptees for Asian adoptees. Interviews with Pema (Jan 18 and Feb 1, 2021) explore her search journey.
The Day I Gave Up My Daughter – Grace Romig's story
One Child Nation on Amazon Prime, or for free on Daily Motion
Meet Me on the Bridge – Changfu Chang