Leslie Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Producing Global Adoptability of Special Needs Children in China
Since the Chinese government first began allowing international adoption in 1992, over 130,000 children have migrated to a wide range of countries in the global North. Although most scholarly attention has focused on healthy female adoptees, in recent years a growing number of special needs children have been placed in foreign homes. This article highlights the efforts that take place in China to transform unwanted disabled and ill children into …
Global Families
Importing Western Childhoods into a Chinese State-Run Orphanage
Since the early 1990s the Chinese government has allowed foreign humanitarian non-governmental organizations to aid children residing in official state-run orphanages. As one aspect of a larger research project on child abandonment and forms of orphanage care in contemporary China, this article examines an innovative state-civil society partnership of a Western infant special care unit housed within a large official state-run institution. The "To…
North Central Sociological Association 2007 Reflections on Teaching Address
It is an honor to be recognized with the award from the NCSA, and I am very humbled to be included in the list of previous award recipients, especially since many of these recipients have played an indirect role in mentoring me as a sociologist and as an educator over the years. When I was invited to give a presentation, I spent a good number of months thinking about a topic that is hardly explored, yet crucial to our lives. As sociologists, we m…
Importing Western Childhoods into a Chinese State-Run Orphanage
Since the early 1990s the Chinese government has allowed foreign humanitarian non-governmental organizations to aid children residing in official state-run orphanages. As one aspect of a larger research project on child abandonment and forms of orphanage care in contemporary China, this article examines an innovative state-civil society partnership of a Western infant special care unit housed within a large official state-run institution. The "To…
Producing Global Adoptability of Special Needs Children in China
Since the Chinese government first began allowing international adoption in 1992, over 130,000 children have migrated to a wide range of countries in the global North. Although most scholarly attention has focused on healthy female adoptees, in recent years a growing number of special needs children have been placed in foreign homes. This article highlights the efforts that take place in China to transform unwanted disabled and ill children into …
North Central Sociological Association 2007 Reflections on Teaching Address
It is an honor to be recognized with the award from the NCSA, and I am very humbled to be included in the list of previous award recipients, especially since many of these recipients have played an indirect role in mentoring me as a sociologist and as an educator over the years. When I was invited to give a presentation, I spent a good number of months thinking about a topic that is hardly explored, yet crucial to our lives. As sociologists, we m…
Importing Western Childhoods into a Chinese State-Run Orphanage
Since the early 1990s the Chinese government has allowed foreign humanitarian non-governmental organizations to aid children residing in official state-run orphanages. As one aspect of a larger research project on child abandonment and forms of orphanage care in contemporary China, this article examines an innovative state-civil society partnership of a Western infant special care unit housed within a large official state-run institution. The "To…
Global Families
Producing Global Adoptability of Special Needs Children in China
Since the Chinese government first began allowing international adoption in 1992, over 130,000 children have migrated to a wide range of countries in the global North. Although most scholarly attention has focused on healthy female adoptees, in recent years a growing number of special needs children have been placed in foreign homes. This article highlights the efforts that take place in China to transform unwanted disabled and ill children into …
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works) · Institution (2 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (2 works) · Law (2 works)