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美国长大的中国女孩找到其身世 Chinese Girls Raised in America Find Their Identity?美国长大的中国女孩找到其身世 An American journalist who adopted a young Chinese girl 18 years ago is using her daughters story to tell about abandoned children from China. Maya Xia Ludtke, 19, was a baby when her birth parents left her in a small town outside Changzhou in the province of Jiangsu. Melissa Ludtke, an award-winning journalist for SportsIllustrated1?and Time magazines, brought Maya to her Massachusetts home in 1997. Over the past two years, Ms. Ludtke has helped her daughter and another Chinese-born girl document their return to their rural home. Jennie Lytel-Sternberg, 19, was at the sameorphanage2?as Maya and was adopted by another woman living in the same part of the U.S. This is a very different exploration, Ms. Ludtke told VOA Learning English. The two teenage girls returned to the town where they were born to understand how their lives might have been different. Along the way the girls took photos and recorded videos of their meetings with the people from the area around Changzhou. It was their journey, not mine, Ms. Ludtke said. Jocelyn?Ford3, the former Beijing bureau chief for the U.S. National Public Radios business show Marketplace, is Ms. Ludtkes partner on a project called?Touching4?Home in China: In Search of Missing Girlhoods. This project takes the photos and video collected by the girls to tell their story, and the stories of other girls like them. It is an electronic book written in six parts with many?interactive5?tools that give extra information. Im really trying to produce something with enduring value, Ms. Ludtke said.? Throughout her career, Ms. Ludtke covered issues relating to women and girls around the world. The one-child policy was an attempt by the Chinese government to limit overpopulation. For the past several decades the government has punished parents who produce more than one child. This has caused many parents to abandon children, especially girls. In Chinese societ