Identity, adoption and China’s one-child policy

Whose Century Is It?February 11, 2016

Maya Ludtke, born in China, adopted by a Caucasian American single mother, on her first trip back to the country of her birth — Adopted American daughter Maya Ludtke visiting China's Great Wall, and the country of her birth, at age 7 in 2004.
Melissa Ludtke

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