Daughters of the Bamboo Grove : China's Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins - Barbara Demick Publication Date:05/06/2025 Jonas Merrick is an MI5

Jonas Merrick is an MI5 officer

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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove : China's Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins - Barbara Demick Publication Date:05/06/2025 Jonas Merrick is an MI5The extraordinary and riveting story of separated Chinese twins, with one twin seized by the authorities and adopted into America, by the Samuel Johnson winning author of Nothing to Envy. In 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection by the government because she already had two daughters. Two years later, an American couple travelled to Shaoyang to adopt a Chinese toddler they thought had been abandoned.