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[Oral History With Amy and Robert]

Description: Oral history with Lena, Amy, and Robert regarding the adoption of Lena from Southern China. Robert and Amy discuss their successful search for Lena's birth family and the factors that contributed to their success. They also speak about the cultural differences between the United States and China and how they chose to maintain the relationship between their families. Robert and Amy also discuss the challenges of raising Lena in an international open adoption and the complex issues that can arise… more
Date: 2016~
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Lena; Amy & Robert
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History with Carmelle Maldonado]

Description: Oral history with Carmelle Maldonado regarding the adoption of Ivy Maldonado from Yiwu, China, speaking about their decision to adopt and adjusting to life with Ivy. She describes finding out Ivy is autistic, the journey to discovering her diagnoses, and how they all learned to manage her disability. She also discusses Ivy's commitment to searching for her birth parents.
Date: unknown
Duration: 33 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Maldonado, Carmelle
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History with Patty and Jim Berry]

Description: Oral history with Patty and Jim Berry regarding the adoption of Lucy Berry from the Dongguan Social Welfare Institute in Guangdong Province, China, discussing their experiences adopting their daughter, Lucy and her medical needs.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Berry, Patty & Berry, Jim
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Interview With Ivy Maldonado]

Description: Narrative history of Ivy Maldonado regarding her adoption from Yiwu, China. She shares the information she knows about her adoption and the memories she has from her early life in China. She also speaks about her motivations for searching for her birth parents and the steps she's taken to begin her search. Ivy also shares details about her diagnosis with autism spectrum disorder, and how she and her family learned to cope with her disability.
Date: unknown
Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Maldonado, Ivy Zhuhau Ni
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History With Brian Stuy]

Description: Oral History with Brian Stuy regarding the adoption of his children, Meikina, Meigon, and Meilan Stuy from Guangdong Province (Meikina and Meigon) and Henan Province (Meilan) in China. He discusses how he arrived at his decision to adopt from China, his leaving of the Mormon Church, about meeting is wife, Longlan Stuy, and their experience adopting Meilan. He also shares his views on China's One Child Policy and his disillusionment with international adoption.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 38 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Stuy, Brian
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Interview with Juliann and Jencie Tomasek]

Description: Interview with Jencie and Juliann Tomasek regarding their adoptions from Hubei Province (Jencie) and Guangdong Province (Juliann), China. Both Jencie and Juliann share their interest in Chinese culture and language, and speak about the questions they get asked about being adopted or Chinese.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 7 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Tomasek, Juliann & Tomasek, Jencie
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Interview with Greta Wohlfeld]

Description: Interview with Greta Wohlfeld regarding her adoption from Jiangxi Province, China. She speaks about her involvement in Chinese cultural activities and shares what she knows about her adoption.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 5 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Wohlfeld, Greta
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History with Willa Mei Kurland and Charlotte Cotter, August 21, 2016]

Description: Oral history with Willa Mei Kurland and Charlotte Cotter regarding their trip to China to search for their birth parents. They discuss their expectations going into the trip, the attention they received from the Chinese media, and how they were embraced by Charlotte's birth family and Willa's foster family. Charlotte and Willa also speak about the aftermath of finding their birth and foster families and what their families' hopes and expectations are regarding future contact. This interview was… more
Date: August 21, 2016
Duration: 46 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Cotter, Charlotte & Kurland, Willa Mei
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History with Camille Davis]

Description: Oral history of Camille regarding her adoption by Kathryn Thompson and Scott Davis from Chongqinq Municipality, China. She describes her experiences as an adopted child, and interactions with other children adopted from China.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 10 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Davis, Camille
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History with Scott Davis and Kathryn Thompson]

Description: Oral history with Kathryn Thompson and Scott Davis regarding the adoption of Camille Davis and Grace Davis from the Fuling Social Welfare Institute in Chongqing Municipality China (Camille) and SWI Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China (Grace). They speak about the process of adopting both girls and their experiences raising their daughters in California, including their efforts to connect them to Chinese culture.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Thompson, Kathryn & Davis, Scott
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History with Robin Bell]

Description: Oral history with Robin Bell regarding the adoption of her daughter from the Zhenyuan Social Welfare Institute in Guizhou Province, China regarding her doubts about the truthfulness of the stories given to adoptive parents about how their children were abandoned.
Date: unknown
Duration: 39 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Bell, Robin
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Interview with Lizzie Sterner]

Description: Interview with Lizzie Sterner regarding her adoption from the Bengbu SWI in Anhui Province, China. Lizzie speaks about visiting China where she was interviewed about searching for her birth parents and visited her orphanage.
Date: unknown
Duration: 7 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Sterner, Lizzie
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History With Vonna Purtell]

Description: Oral History with Vonna Purtell regarding the adoptions of Grace, Zoe, and Kai from Guangdong Province (Grace and Zoe) and Yunnan Province (Kai), China. She speaks about her and her husband's decision to adopt from China, the decision to adopt twice, and the adoption process for all their children. She also discusses Kai's cleft palate surgeries and the cultural differences between the United States and China regarding physical differences.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 46 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Purtell, Vonna
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History with Gao]

Description: Oral History with Gao (last name not given) regarding her adoption of from Xi'an, China to the Netherlands. She discusses her childhood growing up in the Netherlands and the racism and bullying she experienced. She also shares her desire to learn about her own history, speaks about a trip to China where she visited the village where she was abandoned, and hopes that DNA testing might help her find her birth parents.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 36 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Gao
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Interview With Delaney Isley]

Description: Narrative history of Delaney Isley regarding her adoption Chongqing, China, discussing her school and life in Texas. She speaks about the annoying questions she receives about her family and adoption, and how she deals with the comments about her ethnicity or family. She also shares her thoughts on visiting China and her birth parents.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 11 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Isley, Delaney
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History With Tinka]

Description: Oral history with Tinka regarding the adoption of her son from Hunan Province. She speaks about her work as a volunteer orphanage worker in China, particularly her work with children with impairments or disabilities, and her NGO's efforts to build support systems for children with disabilities. She speaks about how she adopted her son, who has cerebral palsy and a mental disability, and the transition for him from China to Switzerland.
Date: March 22, 2017
Duration: 41 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Tinka & Heath, Jena
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Interview with Meigon Stuy]

Description: Interview with Meigon Stuy regarding her adoption from Guangdong Province, China. She shares her opinions about finding her birth family and her parent's work helping other adoptees locate birth families.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: Stuy, Meigon
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History With Rachel Stafeil]

Description: Oral history with Rachel Stafeil regarding the adoption of Lily Stafeil from Guangdong Province, China, discussing her and her husband's decision to adopt from China. She shares how her older children reacted and adjusted to meeting their new sister and her efforts to connect Lily to Chinese culture.
Date: 2016~
Duration: 18 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Stafeil, Rachel
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Interview With Willa Mei Kurland and Charlotte Cotter, 2016]

Description: Interview of Willa Mei Kurland and Charlotte Cotter (they interview each other), discussing their upcoming trip to China to search for their birth parents. They shares their first steps posting on social media and that Willa had begun contact with her foster family and that Charlotte has had a family step forward as her birth family. Both Willa and Charlotte shares their thoughts on searching with another person and the possibility of having different outcomes. They concurrently maintained a bl… more
Date: July 15, 2016
Duration: 28 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Kurland, Willa Mei & Cotter, Charlotte
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Partner: St. Edward’s University
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