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	Mei Mei Little Sister: Portraits from a Chinese Orphanage
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	Categories	Collections, Catalogues & Exhibitions   General   Photo Essays   Portraits   Asia   Far East   Children   Criticism   Adoption   Guidebooks   Hardcover   Printed Books   Herge   Wells, Rebecca
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The Chinese think an unseen red thread joins those in this life who are destined to connect. For photographer Richard Bowen, this thread led him to China's state-run welfare institutions, where there are thousands of kids, primarily girls, growing up not including families to get care of them. Mei Mei presents a poignant glance of just a few of these remarkable kids. Composed against neutral backgrounds, these portraits capture the girls’ inner lives, away from their often bleak surroundings. The pictures show an nearly endless range of expressions: small faces filled together with longing and hope, joy and sadness, humor and mischief, defiance and despair. Throughout the camera's eye these young kids are no longer orphans, but individuals whose personalities are as vital, distinct, and stunning as any mother's kid. When this distinctive human being comes into focus, the connection is made and the red thread becomes visible. And one time seen, the bond can never be broken.
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Customer Reviews
Chinese Portraits   2009-02-28
By Kimberly Clark
This book is all pictures of children in orphanages and epitomizes the images of the children we saw when we went to get our daughter from China....They are so beautiful without even saying a word...Thanks for a great product.
A book that stirs action   2008-11-01
By Kay Bratt
This book was given to me as a gift by someone who knew I have a strong bond with children from China. Each page I turned brought memories flooding back of the time I spent caring for children just like these, behind the walls of the secretive orphanage. Some of the haunting expressions are reminders of those I saw on a daily basis. When I feel my memories of China fading, I pull out the book to take me back. I believe a person cannot look through it and avoid being stirred to action to do something to help the cause of lost children in China. www.kaybratt.com
Beautiful book   2008-06-25
By Stephen Milne
We enjoyed the pictures of the girls. Glad that it was done in black and white. There are so many faces and expressions in the book - but its very hard to tell what they are truely thinking. We too have a "little sister" who's still in an orphanage in China. It would be a good book for those daughters that have already been found to have a book of portraits of their mei mei's who are still waiting for their forever families to find and come for them.
Touching   2007-06-08
By John C. Sparkman
This book touches my soul every time I open it. I have adopted two girls from China and I see their reflections on every page.
Wonderful book!   2007-01-25
By S. Griffin (Tampa, FL)
We are in the process of adopting a baby from China, and this book just made my heart break. The images are so beautiful, and the children are so precious! In my mind, they seem to be simply be waiting... We can't wait to give one of them a home.