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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition. Pages look free of notations. Light wear to the exterior.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No names, underlining, notes or highlighting. q1.

Pictorial Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. First Edition. 394 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The Whereabouts Of The Vast Majority Of China's Orphans Remain A Mystery, Leaving Crucial Questions About The Country's Child Welfare System Unanswered And Suggesting That The Real Scope Of The Catastrophe That Has Befallen China's Unwanted Children May Be Far Larger Than The Evidence In This Report Documents.…

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 394pp.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

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Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 8vo, br. ed. few pencil underlinings ow very good. 394pp. China's claim to guarantee the "Right to Subsistence" conceals a secret world of starvation, disease, and unnatural death. A world into which thousands of Chinese citizens disappear each year. The victims are not the political and religious dissidents, they are orphans and abandoned children in custodial institutions run by China's Ministry of Civil Affairs. Death By Default: A Policy Of Fatal Neglect In China's State Orphanages documents the pattern of cruelty, abuse, and malign neglect which has dominated child welfare work in China since the early 1950s, and which now constitutes one of the country's gravest human rights problems. Many institutions (including some in major cities) appear to be operating as little more than assembly lines for the elimination of unwanted orphans, with an annual turnover of admissions and deaths far exceeding the number of beds available. Death By Default is a long needed expose on a severe humanitarian crisis afflicting the Chinese populace. -- Midwest Book Review.…