The Forgotten ‘Jeep Babies’ of China (opens in new tab)

The Adoption Plan: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism tells the story of how the cause of saving children in China ignited a new global humanitarian imagination and precipitated a transnational struggle for control over the vast quantities of aid that flowed into China on their behalf. In this excerpt, I look at the mixed-race children of Chinese women and U.S. soldiers in post-WWII China. Referred to as “jeep babies,” the fate of these children briefly became a cause célèbre in...