To Save the Children of Korea - (Asian America) by Arissa H Oh (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>To Save the Children of Korea</i> examines how and why the practice of international adoption began in Korea in the 1950s, and how it grew and spread to other sending and receiving countries around the world in the decades since.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>To Save the Children of Korea</i> examines how and why the practice of international adoption began in Korea in the 1950s, and how it grew and spread to other sending and receiving countries around the world in the decades since.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>To Save the Children of Korea</i> would be of interest to historians of modern Korean history and American Cold War history. The book also makes important contributions to interdisciplinary fields such as adoption studies, critical mixed-race studies, and Asian American and ethnic studies....[T]his book illuminates how the spheres of public and private, domestic and political are deeply imbricated and complicate American ideologies about family, nation, and race that rely on these binaries.--Kira A. Donnell "<i>Adoption & Culture</i>"<br><br>An absolutely fascinating study of South Korea's role in the history of international adoption. After the 1950-53 Korean War, thousands of mixed-race 'GI babies' were shipped over to the US. Rejected by their native country for being 'racially impure', they were welcomed by American families looking to adopt, and by a US government that sought to reinforce its liberal status in the new Cold War environment.--Giulia Miller "<i>Times Higher Education</i>"<br><br>Arissa Oh's fascinating and gracefully written transnational study provides the contextualization and theorization of international adoption that has been missing from the literature. Through the lens of Korean adoption, Oh shows us how domestic politics and desires are intertwined with geopolitical relationships and aims, expanding our understanding of Cold War liberalism and even Cold War era postcolonial modernization.--Naoko Shibusawa "Brown University"<br><br>Arissa Oh's unusually sensitive study examines the little-known story of Korean adoption....What makes this work particularly valuable, even for scholarly audiences beyond its subfield, is how deftly the author uses its narrow topic to explore Korean adoption's wider social, cultural, legal, and political climate in South Korea and the United States....Providing careful global comparative context for this particular story, as well as engaging a diverse historiography on postwar domesticity, Cold War civil rights, and the social life of empire, Oh excels at weaving together the state and private familial sphere....[W]ith its poignant, wide-ranging analysis and research, Oh's Korea-focused account sheds invaluable light on nagging issues of Global North-South inequality, underdeveloped social institutions, and politicized family life in ways that should inform future studies in its field.--Kevin Y. Kim "<i>Canadian Journal of History</i>"<br><br>This work seeks to tell the important and largely unknown story of American adoption of Korean children since the Korean War, and does so with remarkably extensive research and great verve. The work succeeds extremely well at both levels: telling the local, bilateral story and the origins of the global story.--Charles K. Armstrong "Columbia University"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Arissa H. Oh is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Boston College.
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