Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Text-to-Society Collaborative Blog Post Assignment

The central idea my memoir (Wish You Happy Forever:What China's Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains  by Jenny Bowen) that interested me the most was that the main character (Jenny Bowen) had a dream and she found a way to make that dream a reality.
Basically this book is about a Caucasian American woman, with 2 biological kids already having families of their own, and she decides to adopt a Chinese girl, then she decides to try and help other children in the orphanages made even harder by the US bombing of the Chinese Embassy as she is trying to make international Chinese connections, and later, when she makes those connections and is trying to get into China to see some more orphanages, The Dying Rooms comes out, a movie that portrays China as treating their orphans terribly and savagely. China's orphans are not being treated well, but only because there are so many orphans, and too few hands to help take care of them all.

The URL below is a link to an article explaining China's One Child Policy, and how the relaxing of that policy and allowing parents to have more kids has increased woman's place/role in Chinese society.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/07/as-china-s-one-child-policy-relaxes-girl-children-no-longer-stigmatized.html

Basically The Dying Rooms is a documentary made by people sneaking cameras and a filming crew into Chinese orphanages and grossly blowing the story's details out of proportion, by saying that the Chinese abuse their children and don't take care of their children.
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