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369 not one of the twenty-four applicants was American: Ibid.
369 Feng Gai: Ibid.
369 “felt his every move would be monitored”: David Pines, “Why Science Can’t Be Done in Isolation,” Newsweek, September 27, 1999.
370 shrink the population to 700 million: Jasper Becker, p. 235.
371 “Owing to the current political situation”: Kay Johnson, “The Revival of Infant Abandonment in China,” in Amy Klatzkin, ed., A Passage to the Heart: Writings from Families with Children from China (St. Paul, Minn.: Yeong and Yeong Book Company, 1999), p. 224.
371 “In a dim room”: Jurgen Kremb, “Der Kinder-Gulag von Harbin,” Der Spiegel, No. 37, September 11, 1995, as cited in Human Rights Watch, Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China’s State Orphanages (New York, Washington, Los Angeles, London, Brussels: Human Rights Watch, 1996), p. 68.
371 two hundred children: A magazine, June/July 1997, p. 35.
371 donate $3,000: Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache, and Liming Liu, West Meets East: Americans Adopt Chinese Children (Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, 1999), p. 39.
372 “China’s Market in Orphan Girls”: New York Times Magazine, April 11, 1993.
372 more than thirty-three thousand infants: According to Families with Children from China, in the fiscal year 2002 there have been 33,637 adoptions from China to the United States since 1985.
372 42.7 years: Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache, and Liming Liu, p. 70.
372 65 percent: Ibid.
372 $15,000 to $20,000: Interview with Jean H. Seeley, September 23, 1999; Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache, and Liming Liu, pp. 39, 42.
372 $70,000-to-$90,000 range: Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache, and Liming Liu, p. 70.
373 “She spent eight months in purgatory”: Christine Kukka, “The Labor of Waiting,” in Amy Klatzkin, ed., A Passage to the Heart, pp. 19-20.
373 “I thought that if I got a child”: Shanti Fry, “Surviving Waiting Parenthood: Some Completely Useless Advice from One Who’s Been There,” in Amy Klatzkin, ed., A Passage to the Heart, p. 3.
373 “Say good-bye to China”: Jean H. Seeiey, “Adventures in Adoption” essay, in correspondence between Jean H. Seeley and author.
373 “Why are you kissing that child?”: Martha Groves, “Why Are You Kissing That Child?,” in Amy Klatzkin, ed., A Passage to the Heart, p. 264.
374 “a chink baby”: Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache, and Liming Liu, p. 149.
374 “Couldn’t get a white one, huh?”: Ibid.
374 “killed a lot of your cousins”: Ibid.
374 gifts from the birth parents: A magazine, June/July 1997, p. 36.
374 “You’re mean”: John Bowen, “The Other Mommy in China,” in Amy Klatzkin, ed., A Passage to the Heart, p. 311.
374 “we shop at Asian markets”: Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache, and Liming Liu, p. 141.
374 “Lo Mein”: Richard Tessler, Gail Gamache, and Liming Liu, p. 114.
375 “I began to see children and their ‘differences’ in a new light”: Patty Cogen, “I Don’t Know Her Name, But I’d Like to Enroll Her in Preschool,” in Amy Klatzkin, ed., A Passage to the Heart, p. 166.
375 200 million to 250 million people: Ling Li, “Mass Migration Within China and the Implications for Chinese Emigration,” and Jack A. Gold-stone, “A Tsunami on the Horizon: The Potential for International Migration,” in Paul J. Smith, ed., Human Smuggling: Chinese Migrant Trafficking and the Challenge to America’s Immigration Tradition (Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997), pp. 34, 58.
375 “That’s why I left in a hurry”: Ko-lin Chin, Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999), p. 23.
375 “In China today”: Los Angeles Times, June 13, 1993.
376 “Those friends and relatives would all want money from you”: James W Gin, oral history interview, Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project.
376 $22,204, compared to $370: Newsday, June 21, 1993.
376 “Everyone went crazy”: Sing Tao Daily, December 2, 1996, as cited in Ko-lin Chin, p. 9.
377 Estimates range from ten thousand to one hundred thousand: Ko-lin Chin, p. 6.
377 “It’s like trying to pin jello to a wall”: Brian Duffy,