AUTHOR: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town; Nothing to Envy (N. Korea),Logavina Street (Bosnia)
New York, USA
Joined March 2009
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Barbara Demick retweeted
Deep admiration for @BarbaraDemick and the Chinese novelist Fang Fang, winners of the @AsiaSociety @chinabksreview Baifang Schell Book Prize. A great event tonight in NY. Fang Fang, whose books are banned in the PRC, was not able to leave China to accept her award.
Barbara Demick retweeted
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
Barbara Demick retweeted
Best China Books of 2025 by @chinabksreview: great list with books by @EmilyZFeng @danwwang @evadou @PatrickMcGee_ Barbara Demick and others. I just ordered the book by Minxin Pei. Huge thanks to @vshih2 for adding me to the list
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Barbara Demick retweeted
Please join me and my friend @BarbaraDemick tomorrow, Monday 11/17, for a zoom video talk on her gripping new book on a Chinese adoptee in Texas and her twin sister in China, “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove.” Register at the @opcofamerica site: opcofamerica.org/Eventposts/…
Barbara Demick retweeted
🎉 Congratulations to the @WSJ reporting team, winners of the 2025 WERT Global Prize; to @shurufu and @BarbaraDemick, this year’s Welles Prize winners and to @dmac1, a Welles finalist recognized for his outstanding reporting: journalism.columbia.edu/news…
Barbara Demick retweeted
I grew up reading Barbara Demick’s work in the @PhillyInquirer So great to see this fellow @Bagehots alum and foreign correspondent honored tonite with a Welles Prize for her book “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove” that delves into China’s one-child policy. #50yearsofBagehots
Barbara Demick retweeted
This week, NüVoices editor @_laujessie speaks to award-winning author @BarbaraDemick about new book ‘Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,’ and how her reporting reunited twins forced apart under Beijing’s One Child Policy, raised separately in China and the US: nuvoices.com/2025/09/24/nuvo…
Barbara Demick retweeted
@BarbaraDemick I just finished Daughters of the Bamboo Grove. I don’t often read nonfiction (because I don’t like reading sad stories), but I couldn’t put it down. Congratulations on the awards and recognition you’ve received for this book. I’m so glad the twins found each other.
Barbara Demick retweeted
The Monocle Daily: @YMekelberg and Erin O’Halloran on the fallout from Israeli’s strikes on Hamas leaders in Doha, as Arab and Muslim leaders meet in Qatar to weigh up a response. Plus: @BarbaraDemick on her latest book, ‘Daughters of the Bamboo Grove’ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
Barbara Demick retweeted
.@BradleyJayChat NightSide: Ever wondered what it’s like living under world’s most repressive regime? @BarbaraDemick discussed book "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" & China's 1 child policy & the rise of international adoption.
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Barbara Demick retweeted
Today: @BarbaraDemick's new book; @SAFmedia on fall travel; Bill Posley's one-man show; New play about comic Frank Maya
Live at noon on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @WNYC.org
Barbara Demick retweeted
The @nytimes Book Review podcast talks best books of the year so far, including three by past @CullmanNYPL Fellows! Hear why they love 'The Sisters' by @jhkhemiri, 'Daughters of the Bamboo Grove' by @BarbaraDemick, and 'The Director' by Daniel Kehlmann: nytimes.com/2025/07/18/books…
Barbara Demick retweeted
'The very best kind of nonfiction'
A glowing write up of DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by @BarbaraDemick in the @ObserverUK
Read here
observer.co.uk/culture/books…
Barbara Demick retweeted
If the acoustics are okay, let's rent that boat on the book cover and record this week's pod there with @JaneMayerNYer. You should expense it.
Congrats to great colleague/fellow podcaster @eosnos on his new book out today with the best title: ‘The Haves and Have-Yachts,’ a summer must read for these oligarchic times>>>
Barbara Demick retweeted
Truly riveting read by @BarbaraDemick.
“Does this mean he has been searching for me?” Mia asked.
“He has been. Desperately.”
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Barbara Demick retweeted
"China had this one-child policy from 1980 till 2015. And, this was the time of, the thinking in the world was that humanity was going to devour the planet. There was this very influential book in the U.S., The Population Bomb, 'We're all gonna die of starvation', that came out in 68.
And...there was this hysteria about population. Many countries had tried to institute population controls. But the Chinese government was really in a position to do it because it's an authoritarian regime. There's not really big cultural, religious, precepts against birth control or abortion.
The Chinese felt that, to boost their economy, they had to keep population down, and it was it was a little bit of a mathematical sleight of hand, they wanted to boost per capita income.
It was very brutal. It's hard for me to say exactly when, but, mid-80s, I think the first stories came out about, people being killed by family planning..." @BarbaraDemick of BarbaraDemick.com 🇨🇳
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Barbara Demick retweeted
‘Daughters of the Bamboo Grove’ by journalist and National Book Award finalist @BarbaraDemick tells the heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy. On May 27, she and @jessbruder join NYPL to discuss.
Register to attend:
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China Desk host @steveyates sat down with @BarbaraDemick to discuss her book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, which uncovers one of the darkest corners of China’s one-child policy: the forced separation and international adoption of children.
Read a summary of the interview: buff.ly/szF0cWs
Listen to the episode: buff.ly/sOdZH8y
Barbara Demick retweeted
Another marvellous blend of reportage & storytelling from @BarbaraDemick. Out in June from @GrantaBooks
Barbara Demick retweeted
My @Channel4News piece on how Trump’s Gaza proposal risks destabilising the entire region - because of history. With @jengels92
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