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

by Julia Stone

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 wild animals, raised an outcry in parts of Western Europe at that time. Chinese Basket Babies is a study of a home intended to rescue these children, almost all baby girls, started by one of the earliest German...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447069902
• ISBN13: 9783447069908
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 237 Pages