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“Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem talks about the making of “In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee,” walking in somebody else’s shoes and more.”
Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the United States in 1966. Told to keep her true identity secret from her new American family, the 8-year-old girl quickly forgot she had ever been anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee is the search to find the answers, as acclaimed filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem (First Person Plural, POV 2000) returns to her native Korea to find her “double,” the mysterious girl whose place she took in America. A co-production of ITVS in association with the Center for Asian American Media and American Documentary/POV.
Learn more about the POV series and Cha Jung Hee’s background and transnational adoption through the following links.
- Facts About Adoption: Adoption costs tend to differ according to the origin, race, sex and age of the child, as do waiting times involved, with white American-born baby girls costing the most and older black boys the least.
- International Adoption: Lessons from Korea: Since the 1950s, South Korea has placed an estimated 150,000-200,000 children in North America, Europe and Australia. Adoptees, activists and experts weigh in with perspectives on In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee, what we can learn from the largest international community of adoptees and the answers that they seek.
- Archival Videos: How Adoptions from Korea Began:In 1956, following the Korean War, Harry and Bertha Holt adopted eight Korean children and become pioneers in intercountry adoption. These newsreels were presented to the American public as part of the Holts’ much-publicized campaign to bring Korean War orphans for adoption into American homes.
- How I Became Cha Jung Hee: At an orphanage in Korea, an adoptee learns how she was switched with Cha Jung Hee, another young girl whose adoption paperwork was already underway.
- You can find more links here.
Florence Li on Discrimination (by MulticulturalHistory)In response to the invitation “Tell me a story about a personal experience of discrimination,” Florence Li explains her reaction to the November 10, 2010 Maclean’s Magazine article originally titled “‘Too Asian’?” and later renamed “The Enrollment Controversy”. She explains how the racism she saw in this article has pushed her to get involved in her community.
This video is posted by the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, as a community response to the website “Chinese Canadian Women, 1923-1967”.
Shit White Guys Say… to Asian Girls (by GrumpyPandaFilms)
So many role reversals.
Also, this was my high school.
