Analysis Of Detective Shi And The Stolen Brides: Human Trafficking In China

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Detective Shi and the Stolen Brides: Human Trafficking in China Summary and Analysis
This video is about how China’s one child policy has lead to a shortage women in China. This video shows how people are coping with the shortage, and how the shortage came about in the first place.
Summary
The video starts off with a brief description of Detective Shi’s first case. Detective Shi is a private investigator who looks for Chinese women who have been kidnapped by men needing wives. 200 young women in the past ten years own their current freedom to Shi rescuing them (Detective 2008). His first case is a woman that had been missing for three years. She went to work in a neighboring province, and was captured. Six months before the video, she
His siblings have all married and left the family’s rubber farm. It is just him and his dad left running the farm. He is worried that no marriage will end up with no heirs for the farm. Many of the women on his farming island of Hainan are either married or left to find more money in cities. Currently this island has a rate of 75 girl births to every 100 boy children (Detective, 2008). In the video he tries to use a bride broker, and a bride finding service to find a bride for him. Zhingen is unsuccessful in finding a woman that is willing to get to know him due to how hard farming life is and how little money he makes doing it. He is very upfront about his life, and seems to be honestly trying to find a willing
Originally she lived in Vietnam. She was told she was heading to China to have a better life. She ended up being sold to a man to become his bride. She was able to find an opportunity and escape with her two children by the man. During this segment, it is found out that 2,500 women were trafficked into China in 2006 (Detective, 2008). These women are only the case that ended up being found out by the government; the real number is most likely much higher.
The second case is of a married woman that already one child being kidnapped. She went into a clinic for a headache and ended up drugged and kidnapped. She ended up having to leave her child by the man behind when she escaped. Even though they know the man that kidnapped her, he will most likely never be prosecuted. She will probably never see her second child again either; it was the man’s only son.
They also discuss how the gender bias in the culture lead to many girl pregnancy being aborted or infants being killed. There is measures put in place to try to stop this, but it is still going on. There is an orphanage mentioned that 99 out of every hundred babies there are girls (Detective, 2008).

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