If you've already adopted a child from China - or are just considering adoption from China - you'll probably be interested in reading as much as possible about the process. Not just the dry "fill in this form, then make this appointment" stuff, but the actual experience of taking a journey from your own homely house to that country over there (the one between Russia and Thailand) and coming home with a small human being in tow.

I'm quite fascinated by the story told in Cindy Champnella's The Waiting Child, although I haven't read the whole thing. There are excerpts ... more

I've talked about packing lists for traveling to China before (not to mention traveling with that other kind of baggage). But I was never THIS concise: Here's ... more

Over there to the right of these words is a picture from NASA called "Eastern China Pollution." Yes, you can't actually see the Great Wall from space but you can see the air pollution over it.

So the question for traveling families and other visitors becomes, "Do I have to pack breathing equipment?"

Officials... more