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Western-style adoption (as in a couple taking a baby home from an orphanage) has not been and is still not very common in Taiwan. But there are plenty of local ways kids find new homes here, including a now-abandoned, rather shocking "brother-sister/husband-wife" arrangement! And -- for a time -- quite a few girls, in particular, were adopted by American, Australian and European parents, who raised the children back in their home countries. Several of these foreign-raised Taiwan-born girls would become local media sensations when they returned to the island in search of their "mother-land."
Cover Image: Via PressReader/GoldCoast Eye Australia (Note: Formosa Files is a non-profit, educational podcast. No copyright infringement intended and images are used with links to original publisher)
ARTICLE: LOST LITTLE GIRL - GoldCoast Eye/ PressReader (2015)
Below: Images from article link above show Kartya Wunderle and her adoptive parents and birth mother.
Below left: Nora Wunderle with a teenage Kartya
Below right: Kartya Wunderle with her son
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AMAZON LINK to: Lucky Girl by Professor Mei-Ling Hopgood (2010)
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Below: An image of a "Shim-pua" (新婦仔) wedding and wedding contract
Images via: Wikipedia - Tongyangxi/Shimpua marriage
Check our very first episode, the story of a very white man who showed up in London in 1703... and claimed to be from Formosa. Or try a foodie episode from Season 3. Or, for those who want some harder-core history, hear the tale of the Lockheed U-2 pilot Wang Hsi-chueh 王錫爵, who became was famous for defecting to the PRC by hijacking China Airlines Flight 334 on May 3, 1986.
