China Adoption Links

• Our 2005 China Log
• Madison Hope Chinese School, WI

• China Adoption Organizations
• China Travel Information
• Chinese Language
• Chinese Books
• Specific Chinese Locales

  China Adoption Organizations

• Children's Home Society & Family Services, MN
• Families with Children from China (FCC)
• China Sprout
• China Center for Adoption Affairs (CCAA)
• Adoption Affairs of Hunan
• Lavida Adoption List
• Half The Sky Foundation: Journal & Hometown Friends
• Attach China (attachment issues for children adopted from China)
• Children's Home Society & Family Services Adoption : Adoption is a journey...
• ELDIS: Urban poverty, childhood poverty and social protection in China: Critical Issues
• Childhood Attachment Issues

• Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
• Hunan Province
• Adoption City: Changsha
• Adoption Orphanages: Yiyang & Yuanling Social Welfare Institutes, Hunan Province

  China Travel Information

• DS-230 Form
• China Embassy: China Visa Application (instructions)
• Baggage limitation per person: 44 lb (20 kg); one carry-on that is < 10 lb with L+W+H < 45" (e.g. 9x14x22) [plus backpack or tote bag?] (must fit in overhead)
• Our China Travel List
• Pedialyte Substitute Rehydration Formula
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • International Adoptions
  • East Asia Travel Information
• Pages form Adoptive Parents
  • Personal China Adoption Stories
  • Adoption Travel Tips
  • Other China Links
  • Southern China (background for this page)
• Discount Hotels: China
• FCC Travel Tips
• Travel on Demand: China
• Travel China Guide
• Maps (see also below in Hunan Province and cities)
  • Encarta Maps: Hunan: Yiyang & Yuanling
  • China Travel Guide: China Maps (includes maps of Guangzhou and Changsha)
  • Hunan Map
• Weather
  Travel China Guide: Climate
  • Weather China: Changsha & Guangzhou
  • Weather Underground : Changsha & Guangzhou
  • CNN Weather: Yuanling
• PackMates (compress your clothes in luggage)
  • Comments by Adoptive Parent: 1-800-432-7517, ask for Pam or Linda, and get the Adoption Special -- 15 mediums for $30
  • TrunkOutlet
  • iTouchLess
• Baby Trekker front pack (good up to 40 lb.)

  Chinese Language

• China Sprout: Chinese Cultural and Educational Products
• Learning Chinese Online
• Wawa Yaya Learning Products
• Words and Phrases for Adoptive Parents
• On-line Mandarin Tools
• CantoDict Project (includes Mandarin/Pinyin)
• Translated Questions for Orphanages
• Vocabulary Cards
• Cultured Kids of Madison (Spanish & Mandarin School
• Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, Nick Jr.

  China Books & Recipes

• Adoption Book List
• Amazon Books about Hunan
• Recipe Source: China (was SOAR: Searchable Online Archive of Recipes)

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  Guangzhou, Guangdong Province

• ThinkQuest: Guangdong Province
• Guangzhou Wikipedia
• FortuneCity: Shamian Island, Guangzhou (has map & adoptive family info)
• Doug Peter's Shamian Island Map
• White Swan Hotel, Guangzhou

  Hunan Province

• ThinkQuest: Hunan
• Travel China Guide: Hunan
• About Hunan (scoba) (Canada copy)
• TopTrip: Hunan
• LinkTrip: Hunan
• Yahoo references for Hunan
• Google Search for Hunan

  Changsha: Adoption City

• Adoption Hotel: Grand Sun City Hotel, 298 Fu Rong Road, Changsha 410007, Hunan, P.R.C. Phone: 86-731-5218888
  • FCC Travel Report
  • AsiaTravel
  • SinoHotel
• Frommer's China: Changsha
• ChinaTour: Changsha
• Changsha Facts Page
• Changsha, Chen Zhou & Hunan
• FortuneCity: Changsha (has map & adoptive family info)
• Muztagh Travel: Changsha & Guangzhou
• Greatest Cities Hunan: Changsha

Adoption Orphanages: Yiyang & Yuanling SWI, Hunan Province

• Yiyang Social Welfare Institute
  • Yiyang SWI Mailing Label

    Yiyang City S.W.I.
    79 Xiu Feng Road
    Yiyang City
    Hunan Province, China
    PC 413000
    

  • Adoption Family Visit to Yiyang SWI
  • Personal China Adoption Stories (search for Yiyang)
• Yuanling County Social Welfare Institute
  • Yuanling SWI Mailing Label

    Yuanling County Social Welfare Institute
    Yuanling County
    Hunan Province, China
    PC 419600
    

  • Adoptive Family Visits to Yuanling SWI
    • Stoltzman
    • Jackson
• Raising China Children Yahoo Groups
  • Yiyang SWI, Hunan (includes picture of orphanage)
  • Yuanling SWI, Hunan (includes picture of orphanage)
  • FCC Toronto Email List
  • Lavida List