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An hour long discussion about China's stolen children and adoption with KQED radio. Some fascinating questions from adoptive parents.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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Journalist Barbara Demick Traces Decades of Trauma From China’s One-Child Policy | KQED
We talk to Barbara Demick about the one-child policy’s lasting impacts on adoptees and their families in China and abroad.
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June 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
An hour long discussion about China's stolen children and adoption with KQED radio. Some fascinating questions from adoptive parents.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
"It is this unshowy, subtle approach that makes her book the very best kind of nonfiction, and Demick its peerless practitioner."
Thank you.
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Thank you.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
The story of China’s banished children | The Observer
Through the story of two families, Barbara Demick reveals how children forcibly taken from their parents were then put forward for ‘rescue’ in the west
observer.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"It is this unshowy, subtle approach that makes her book the very best kind of nonfiction, and Demick its peerless practitioner."
Thank you.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Thank you.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
This is the LAPD cop who (allegedly, I add, because we believe in due process) shot the Australian journalist in the leg. Look at the video. What is LAPD doing about it? #cpj
June 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is the LAPD cop who (allegedly, I add, because we believe in due process) shot the Australian journalist in the leg. Look at the video. What is LAPD doing about it? #cpj
Here's footage of the military parade. Look familiar? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bgF...
June 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Here's footage of the military parade. Look familiar? www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bgF...
BBC Book of the week. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick on BBC Sounds.
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June 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
BBC Book of the week. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
The Guardian did a very nice job giving you a taste of my new book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘Mom, am I the missing twin?’: the story of two babies separated by the Chinese state – and their emotional reunion
US couple Marsha and Al adopted a baby girl from China because they thought she had been abandoned. Years later they read about a girl whose sister had been illegally snatched by the authorities. Was ...
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June 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Guardian did a very nice job giving you a taste of my new book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Speaking of New York Times book reviews, I'm very excited to read that Naomi Xu Elegant's Gingko Season praised as a "superb debut novel." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...
Conversations With Emotionally Stunted Friends
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May 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Speaking of New York Times book reviews, I'm very excited to read that Naomi Xu Elegant's Gingko Season praised as a "superb debut novel." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...
New York Times today. "Demick... is one of our finest chroniclers of East Asia. She hammers together strong, solid sentence after strong, solid sentence — until the grandeur of the architecture comes into focus." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...
Separated as Toddlers, Raised on Opposite Sides of the World
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May 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
New York Times today. "Demick... is one of our finest chroniclers of East Asia. She hammers together strong, solid sentence after strong, solid sentence — until the grandeur of the architecture comes into focus." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...
A very courageous Chinese adoptee told me her story. Here it is: www.newyorker.com/news/america...
The Chinese Adoptees Who Were Stolen
As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their origins.
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May 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
A very courageous Chinese adoptee told me her story. Here it is: www.newyorker.com/news/america...
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I'm honored "At the Edge of Empire" has won the inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize for nonfiction from China Books Review @chinabksreview.bsky.social at the Asia Society @asiasociety.bsky.social. The prize recognizes writing on China and the Sinophone world: chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/13/2...
May 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I'm honored "At the Edge of Empire" has won the inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize for nonfiction from China Books Review @chinabksreview.bsky.social at the Asia Society @asiasociety.bsky.social. The prize recognizes writing on China and the Sinophone world: chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/13/2...
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Yes, the new @barbarademick.bsky.social book is one of the most amazing things I've read out of China in a long time. The rare work that deeply expands your sense of people's interior lives.
New Yorkers, come hear @barbarademick.bsky.social’s first talk about her amazing new book “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,” at The Strand on Monday. It’s an epic story of Chinese twin sisters cruelly separated, one adopted and raised in America. Tickets here: www.strandbooks.com/events/event...
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May 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Yes, the new @barbarademick.bsky.social book is one of the most amazing things I've read out of China in a long time. The rare work that deeply expands your sense of people's interior lives.
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New Yorkers, come hear @barbarademick.bsky.social’s first talk about her amazing new book “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,” at The Strand on Monday. It’s an epic story of Chinese twin sisters cruelly separated, one adopted and raised in America. Tickets here: www.strandbooks.com/events/event...
www.strandbooks.com
May 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
New Yorkers, come hear @barbarademick.bsky.social’s first talk about her amazing new book “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,” at The Strand on Monday. It’s an epic story of Chinese twin sisters cruelly separated, one adopted and raised in America. Tickets here: www.strandbooks.com/events/event...
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I'm nearly done reading @barbarademick.bsky.social's "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" (as rec'd by @matthewjbell.bsky.social). Fascinating and eerie to hear this story on @theworld.org with that full context so top of mind: theworld.org/stories/2025...
North Korea opens for Western tourists - The World from PRX
On Thursday, North Korea let Western tourists visit for the first time since 2020. But there are ethical issues around taking a vacation in an autocratic nation.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I'm nearly done reading @barbarademick.bsky.social's "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" (as rec'd by @matthewjbell.bsky.social). Fascinating and eerie to hear this story on @theworld.org with that full context so top of mind: theworld.org/stories/2025...
Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé
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Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé
Nesheiwat falsified, misled, selectively omitted, or lied about her medical education, board certifications, and military experience
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April 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé
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Identical twins. One Chinese, one American. How they were separated, how they were reunited and what their story tells us about China and the United States. May 22, launch event for my new book Daughters of the Bamboo Grove at the Asia Society. asiasociety.org/new-york/eve...
Barbara Demick's Daughters of the Bamboo Grove Book Launch with Emily Feng
Join us for the launch of Barbara Demick's latest book "Daughters of the Bamboo Grove," the story of twin sisters torn apart by China's one-child policy--one who remained in China, and the other adopt...
asiasociety.org
April 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Identical twins. One Chinese, one American. How they were separated, how they were reunited and what their story tells us about China and the United States. May 22, launch event for my new book Daughters of the Bamboo Grove at the Asia Society. asiasociety.org/new-york/eve...
The Washington Post's spiked column, now online in The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
Why I Left the Washington Post
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided...
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March 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The Washington Post's spiked column, now online in The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
Stories about Ruth Marcus ex of Wash Post describe her as a "liberal" columnist. But her writing was not about espousing a political viewpoint as much as upholding the rule of law, the foundation of any democracy. That's the tragedy here. Last column.. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Warning to law firms: Stand up for the rule of law while you can
One by one, Trump is fencing in all his potential opponents. Now he’s sending a clear warning to lawyers to back off.
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March 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Stories about Ruth Marcus ex of Wash Post describe her as a "liberal" columnist. But her writing was not about espousing a political viewpoint as much as upholding the rule of law, the foundation of any democracy. That's the tragedy here. Last column.. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Is Trump now Putin's ally? If so, why? I took a stab at this question.
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
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Perspective | The unanswered question of our time: Is Trump an agent of Russia?
Neither former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III nor the FBI took it on. It’s crucial someone does. This is a case for super-secret mole hunters.
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February 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Is Trump now Putin's ally? If so, why? I took a stab at this question.
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
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A description of the Kremlin press pool around the start of Vladimir Putin’s second term, from CJR. www.cjr.org/feature/what...
February 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A description of the Kremlin press pool around the start of Vladimir Putin’s second term, from CJR. www.cjr.org/feature/what...
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It’s not hard to see where this is going.
"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office."
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AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press
The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs
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February 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It’s not hard to see where this is going.
Where are the students? Just walked by a very quiet Columbia campus. This is the time we really need them....
February 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Where are the students? Just walked by a very quiet Columbia campus. This is the time we really need them....
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Still nothing from Students for Justice in Palestine on their Twitter account about Trump's many horrific statements about Gaza. It's like they only protest Democrats....as some of us told you last year.
February 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Still nothing from Students for Justice in Palestine on their Twitter account about Trump's many horrific statements about Gaza. It's like they only protest Democrats....as some of us told you last year.