Delve Deeper into In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee A film by Deann Borshay Liem

This multi-media resource list, American outsider in her native compiled by Susan Conlon and land. What transpired in this Martha Perry of Princeton world-at once familiar and ADULT FICTION Public Library, provides a strange, comforting and sad-left range of perspectives on the Katy conflicted, shattered, Lee, Chang-rae. The issues raised by the upcoming exhilarated, and moved in ways Surrendered. New York: POV documentary In the she never imagined. Riverhead Books, 2010. Thirty Matter of Cha Jung Hee. years after vying for the Trenka, Jane Jeong. Fugitive attentions of a beautiful but Her passport said she was Cha Visions: An Adoptee’s Return damaged missionary wife at an Jung Hee. She knew she was not. to Korea. St. Paul, MN: orphanage, Korean orphan June So began a 40-year deception for Graywolf Press, 2009. In her Han and former GI Hector a Korean adoptee who came to second memoir, Trenka, a Korean Brennan are reunited by a plot the in 1966. Told to adoptee raised in America, that forces them to come to terms keep her true identity secret from explores the trials of moving back with mysterious secrets from their her new American family, the 8- to live in Korea: the struggle for past. year-old girl quickly forgot she acceptance, learning the had ever been anyone else. But language, and understanding the Lee, Marie Myung-Ok. why had her identity been culture. Somebody’s Daughter. Boston, switched? And who was the real MA: Beacon Press, 2005. Cha Jung Hee? In the Matter of Trenka, Jane Jeong. The Somebody’s Daughter is the story Cha Jung Hee is the search to Language of Blood: A Memoir. of nineteen-year-old Sarah find the answers, as acclaimed St. Paul, MN: Borealis Books, Thorson, who was adopted as a filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem 2003. An adoptee's search for baby by a Lutheran couple in the returns to her native Korea to find identity takes her on a journey Midwest. After dropping out of her “double,” the mysterious girl from Minnesota to Korea and back college, she decides to study in whose place she took in America. as she seeks to resolve the Korea and becomes more and dualities that have long-defined more intrigued by her Korean ADULT NONFICTION her life: Korean-born, American- heritage, eventually embarking on raised, never fully belonging to a crusade to find her birth mother. Korean Adoptees either. Min, Katherine. Secondhand Lee, Ellen, et al. Once They Wilkinson, Sook and Nancy Fox World. New York: Knopf, 2006. Hear My Name: Korean (eds.) After the Morning Calm: Depicting a tragedy-beset Korean- Adoptees and Their Journeys Reflections of Korean American family living in upstate Toward Identity. Tamarisk Adoptees. Sunrise Ventures, New York, protagonist, Isa, is Books, 2008. A testament to the 2002. Through memories, caught between two cultures. Her more than 100,000 Korean reflections, and poetry, Korean Korean-born parents, who have adoptees who have come to the adult adoptees speak to the range achieved a measure of success in United States since the 1950s, of issues that accompany the United States, disagree on this collection of oral histories adoption: feelings of belonging what to call her when she is born. features the stories of nine Korean and difference, self and other, She embraces American life, but Americans who were adopted as culture and accommodation, love resists her mother's urgings to get children and the struggles they’ve and loss. an eyelid operation popular with shared as foreigners in their Asian women. When her younger native lands. From their early Korean War brother is killed in a freak confrontations with racism and accident, she struggles with the xenophobia to their later-in-life Encyclopedia of the Korean sense that her traditional parents trips back to Korea to find their War: A Political, Social, and value their dead son more than roots (with mixed results), these Military History. Spencer C. their living daughter. narratives illustrate the wide Tucker, editor; Jinwung Kim, variety of ways in which all et al. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC- Scott, Joanna C. The Lucky adoptive parents and adoptees— CLIO, 2000. This three-volume Gourd Shop. Denver, CO: not just those from Korea—must set explores the Korean War, a MacMurray & Beck, 2000. This struggle with issues of identity, conflict significant for its impact moving story about three adopted alienation, and family. on American foreign policy, Korean children's origins is military controversies, and colorful hauntingly powerful, revealing Robinson, Katy. A Single political and military characters. with honesty and empathy the Square Picture: A Korean Arranged alphabetically, the sharpest edges that an Adoptee's Search for Her entries cover battles, military and unsympathetic world uses to carve Roots. New York: Berkley political leaders, events and our choices. Books, 2002. One day she was operations, military organizations Kim Ji-yun, growing up in Seoul, and operations, historical and Korea. The next day she was geographical facts, United Nations NON-FICTION FOR YOUNG Catherine Jeanne Robinson, living commands and committees, U.S. READERS with her new American family in military organizations and policy, Salt Lake City, Utah. Twenty years and other relevant topics. Boyd, Brian. When You Were later, Katy Robinson returned to Born in Korea: A Memory Book Seoul in search of her birth for Children Adopted from mother-and found herself an Korea. St. Paul, MN: Yeong &

Delve Deeper into In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee A film by Deann Borshay Liem

Yeong Book Co., 1993. K-grade ancestry. He sets out on a course through which they attempt to 5. This book is a thoughtful to explore his Korean roots and stay connected to their Korean description of the lives of children ask questions that his adoptive roots. The film also discusses why in Korea before they are adopted. parents may not be able to so many Korean orphans are answer. being adopted outside of the Cheung, Hyechong. K is for country and documents the effort Korea. London: Frances Pellegrini, Nina. Families Are to increase domestic adoption in Lincoln Children's, 2008. K- Different. New York: Holiday Korea. grade 3. With each letter of the House, 1991. Kindergarten to alphabet featuring a city or aspect grade 1. Created by a woman with , a television of country life, the ancient and an adopted Korean daughter, this broadcast by Ian Wright. Pilot modern world of Korea, its people, book tells the story of a family Productions, 2008. (60 min). culture, and traditions are composed of Caucasian parents, Ian Wright travels throughout presented in a richly illustrated their two adopted Korean South Korea, including stops in addition to the World Alphabet daughters and their dog. Told in Seoul, Jinbu, Hahoe, Pusan and to series with color photos the voice of the younger daughter Cheju Island. Originally broadcast throughout. Nico, the familiar concerns of as an episode of the television adopted children and their parents series Globe trekker. Krementz, Jill. How it Feels to are expressed. Be Adopted. New York: Knopf, 1988. Ages 9-12. 19 boys and FILMS/ DOCUMENTARIES girls, from age 8-16 and from every social background confide First Person Plural, a film by their feelings about their adoption. Deanne Borshay Liem. Independent Television McGowen, Tom. The Korean Service (ITVS) and the War. New York: Franklin National Asian American Watts, 1992. Grades 6-9. An Telecommunications overview of the three-year war Association (NAATA), 2000 (56 that took over two million lives min.). Chronicles Deanne Borshay and resolved none of the conflicts Liem’s experiences as a South that split Korea into two Korean child adopted by a white irreconcilable nations. American family. A first-time journey to Korea with her adoptive FICTION FOR YOUNG READERS American mother and father reveals a deeply personal story Carlson, Lori M. American about mistaken identity, and Eyes: uncovers broader issues about the New Asian-American Short loss of culture resulting from Stories for Young Adults. New assimilation and American York: Fawcett Juniper, 1994. attitudes toward immigrants and Grade 7 and up. minorities. POV broadcast, 2000 These ten stories reflect the season. conflict Asian-Americans face in balancing an ancient heritage and Going Home, a film by Jason an unknown future. Hoffman. ThirdCat Productions, 2009 (73 min.). Girard, Linda Walvoord. We Born in Korea and raised in by Adopted You, Benjamin Koo. Jewish parents in , Niles, IL: A. Whitman, 1989. 21-year-old Jason Hoffman finally Ages 7-11. A story about summons the courage to return to interracial adoption, nine-year old Korea and contact his birth Ben was adopted from Korea, and mother. Jason’s search raises has questions about his adoption. questions of what his life could Benjamin Koo narrates his own have been had he not been story: his birth mother left him at adopted and challenges the an orphanage in Korea when he preconceptions of his own identity. was only a few days old; and in America, his adoptive parents Journey of Hope, a film by were longing to have a child and Karen Hae Soon Eckert. HOPE were just waiting for one to Productions, 2000 (57 min). become available. Through the personal stories of adult adoptees, the film looks at Kent, Rose. Kimchi and the issues surrounding the Calamari, New York: adoption of Korean children by HarperCollins, 2007. Grades 4- families in the United States. The 7. Joseph Calderaro, a fourteen- adoptees featured in the film year-old Korean adoptee, is describe their experiences and challenged by a school assignment struggles with their personal and requiring him to trace his cultural identity and the process