Chinese Basket Babies: A German Missionary Foundling Home and the Girls It Raised (1850s-1914) by Julia Stone

Chinese Basket Babies: A German Missionary Foundling Home and the Girls It Raised (1850s-1914)

Opera Sinologica

Julia Stone

237 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion sociology
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Although the term and its meaning are little known today, everyone knew what foundlings were in the 19th century. They were unwanted infants abandoned by their parents. The plight of such children in China, believed by some to be eaten alive by wi...

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