The Lost Daughters of China | Essays and Criticism

  • The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past

    Aubrey holds a Ph.D. in English and has published many articles on twentieth-century literature. In this essay, Aubrey discusses the pressures that drove Chinese leaders to adopt the one-child policy in the early 1980s.

  • The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America

    Prebilic writes children’s books, analytical essays, and technical publications and assists students in San Ramon, California, with language and reading skills. In this essay, Prebilic explores the book’s obscure element—the violence towards, and belittlement of, women and children.

  • The Vast sorrow of Losing a Child.

    DeFrees has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia and a law degree from the University of Texas and is a published writer and an editor. In the following essay, DeFrees discusses author Evans’s use of personal experience to bring a more evocative understanding of,and to make a more resonant argument in support of, female children adopted from China.