China's hidden children : abandonment, adoption, and the human costs of the one-child policy / Kay Ann Johnson.

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]

xiii, 218 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-208) and index.

Introduction: somebody's children -- Relinquishing daughters: from customary adoption to abandonment -- Adopting daughters and hiding out-of-plan children -- From "unwanted abandoned girls" to "stolen children": the circulation of out-of-plan children in the 2000s -- An emerging "traffic in children" -- Conclusion: the hidden human costs of the one-child policy.