Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care?s Resistance in Conte

Families We NeedDisability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China\nAuthor(s): Erin Raffety\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978829305, 978-1978829305\nSynopsis\nSet in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork,Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese foster children,Dengrong, PeiPei, and Meili,from the state orphanage into the humble, foster homes of Auntie Li, Auntie Ma, and Auntie Huang. Traversing the geography of Guangxi, from the modern capital Nanning where Pei Pei and Meili reside, to the small farming village several hours away whereDengrongis placed, this ethnography details the hardships of social abandonment for disabled children and disenfranchised, older women in China, while also analyzing the state's efforts to cope with such marginal populations and incorporate them into China's modern [url] book argue.