Article Analysis

An analysis of an online article written by Djanlissa Pringles published on the VICE website (originally on VICE Netherlands) on the 8th of February, 2024.

The article starts off by explaining to the reader the back story of how Chinese children came to be adopted by international parents, but at the same time sets a more sombre tone with the context of China having a one-child policy, child trafficking and abandonment.

The article then goes on to dig into how this event progressed on into what it is today and the actual opinions of those children that were a product of this ordeal, and are :

“Reckoning with the impact of being raised in a social and cultural context so far removed from their birth country.”

Starting the article off with strong context to educate the reader, immediately informs them that this is nonfiction and the author’s technique of putting the concluded result of the topic in the title yet not addressing it until later and carefully explaining the series of events while leading it up to today makes the audience more inclined to read more while also being educated about what had caused these children to have foreign parents and be grown apart from their birth country.

Then lastly, it goes into how these abandoned children are now living their lives, how this has impacted them and what it is like to be estranged from their own culture, also links a further piece about a documentary made with Xiangxia but doesn’t explain in detail, to leave people wondering.