Did you see this reunion story?

I had not seen it before. He didn't loook very excited..or maybe he was in shock. I am glad he found out he was not intentionally abandoned. How sad that he got lost and was never reunited with his family. His mother must have worried her self sick every day.

Wow... I hadn't seen it before and thank you for posting.

I agree that he didn't "look" excited but that could be due to many things. I didn't "look" excited during my first f2f reunion (in an airport) with my mom, either. I probably looked devastated to the average passer-by -- I was crying my eyes out.

I haven't met many men who readily show the full range of emotions they are feeling at any given time... especially when there are cameras around.

I'm glad to know he's found his truth. I'm always glad when I hear that for any adoptee... every single time!

~Take care!

It's great to see the ability to reunite across countries. I'm sure his biological family was very worried. It would be interesting to hear more on this story, it sounds like there are some missing elements.

On a side note; I'm not sure what video cantstop watched but the one I did said he was in an orphanage and then placed for adoption. Even if you look for evil everywhere, you won't find it. People are inherently good.

Wow. That was an amazing story. He didn't look that emotional but his biological dad seemed to be. Maybe he was just hiding his emotions.

Yes, and I feel so terrible for his poor Chinese parents (I am refraining from using anything other than Chinese and American to describe his two sets of parents because he was not actually surrendered). One moment of looking away created all that... I'm so glad his American parents traveled with him to China to reunite! I also wish his Chinese mother the best with her illness/hopefull recovery

He didn't like that? Or it was too much?

I couldn't get it

Yes, and I am greatly disturbed by it. I find it highly suspicious that his adoptive "Mom", I mean, abductor, was "doing volunteer work" and magically found a boy to adopt. People know that it is extremely rare for a male child in China to be "relinquished" or "abandoned". She isn't his Mom, because he was NEVER available legally for adoption. She is his captor.

Google his fake Mom's name. She works for an adoption agency. No wonder the boy isn't jumping for joy. He's probably suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. She should be in jail.

eta for Mom :

(CNN) -- His father and uncle fall to the ground, crying uncontrollably. After 11 years of not knowing, relief of finding a child they thought had been lost forever pours out of them.

Christian Norris is reunited with his uncle and grandmother in Beijing.

That child is Christian Norris -- he's 17 now and he stood there unmoved as his father and uncle wept; perhaps because to him both men are distant memories.

"I don't really remember my dad that much," Christian said quietly "I just remember my uncle, who raised me much of the time."

His low-key, almost stone-faced demeanor was in stark contrast to his father Jin Gaoke. "There are no words to describe the joy I felt when I saw him. He is like a piece of flesh from my own body."

His uncle Jin Xiaowang chimes in. "The hair on his arms makes him look American, he has lots of hair on his arms."

Christian set this day in motion three years ago when he asked his adopted mother Julia Norris to find his Chinese family; a search from Maryland in the United States, to a remote village in central China, which would eventually involve hundreds of China's savvy Internet users.

Despite her background as a federal and private investigator and her work on the TV show "America's Most Wanted," Julia's search kept proving fruitless.

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Police and orphanage records were incomplete and Christian's memories were vague.

"The first obstacle was that I was focusing on the wrong province. He remembered being from Shanxi province ... and he remembered the name of (his) village as Dongjiagou, and so I searched and searched."

Both the village name and the province were wrong -- Julia was looking in the wrong place hundreds of miles to the east. Watch the emotional reunion »

Everything changed in April this year when she contacted lawyer Zhang Zhiwei, who works with volunteers in China, reuniting lost children with the parents.

"Based on Jiacheng's (Christian's) memories we did some analysis, like his eating habits," Zhang said. "He likes vinegar, which should be in northern China and close to Shanxi. He also likes garlic ... and from his memory his family grew potato and corn, which gave us a hint of the region he used to live."

But the search really took off after Zhang posted a blog.

"When I posted the story many Chinese netizens were also moved by the selfless love and actively participated, providing as much detail as possible, all hoping to fulfill her dream of finding her son's hometown," he said.

Through their Internet searches the netizens discovered that Christian's birth parents were doctors and tracked them down to a city called Longde in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region through a medical essay they had written.

But Christian's birth parents weren't who he remembered; for the first six years of his life he had been raised by his uncle Jin Xiaowang -- always thinking he was his father.

"My older brother wanted to have two children, an older one and a younger one. They broke the one-child policy. They were afraid it might affect their jobs (and) they brought him (Christian) to me once he was born," Jin said.

So Christian grew up in a poor village called Donggou. When he was 6 years old his uncle says he was sent away to school in the city to live with his birth parents, but was told they were a foster family. After just a few months, Christian wanted to return to the village, so his father put him on a bus, and that was the last his family saw of him.

Details are vague and records incomplete, but it could have been up to a year later when police found him hundreds of miles away from his home, then took him to a nearby orphanage in Luoyang, Henan Province. The orphanage and the place they found him were in the same city.

That's where he was adopted by Julia, who was doing volunteer work there.

"When I found out that the birth family actually lost him at a crowded bus station and did not mean to relinquish him, my heart was broken for both Christian and the family. It was just sad."

Christian still has much to talk about with his Chinese family, "but I'm pretty clear that I wasn't abandoned." But simply talking won't be easy -- he's forgotten how to speak Mandarin, and his birth relatives don't speak English.

But this is just for a few days in China before returning to the U.S. where he has lived most of his life. His Chinese relatives all say they respect his decision about where to live but hope that just maybe he will want to stay.

"He has grown taller, he has grown bigger, but inside Chinese blood is still flowing in his veins," said his birth father Jin Gaoke.

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Here is the agency his "mother" works for:

http://www.awaa.org/whoweare/

Julia Norris

Director of Regional Social Services

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Hello! My name is Julia Norris and I grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I graduated in 1989 from the University of Richmond with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations. My passion to work in International adoption began in 1987, when I traveled the world by ship in a college program called “Semester At Sea.” During that trip I visited orphanages in several third world countries, and those images never faded from my heart. It was then that I knew I wanted to work in International Adoption, and someday adopt a baby.

After college I spent 10 years as a Federal Investigator, Private Investigator, and even worked part of that time for the television show “America’s Most Wanted.” Although my career was challenging and rewarding at times, my heart still longed to want to help the millions of orphans in the world. In 1999 God opened the door for me to work for ACAA (now known as AWAA). I love working with families and most of all seeing the orphans find their “forever homes.” In the summer of 2000 I had the privilege of leading a mission trip to an orphanage in China. It was that trip that really changed my life, because nine months later I was back in China adopting a seven-year-old boy. The older children I met on that trip had such an impact on my heart, because the sadness in their eyes was so visible and because I knew they had little chance of ever being adopted. My son, Christian, is such a joy and blessing that I cannot imagine my life without him. Although he enjoyed being an only child for awhile, I wanted him to be able to grow up with a sibling, so in April of 2004 I adopted again from China, but this time a girl, named Madison Joy. She is the perfect addition to our family!

It is such a blessing and honor to be a part of the dedicated staff at America World helping to unite these precious children with loving families!

and lets not ignore this little gem:

http://www.awaablog.org/blog/2009/08/orphan-sunday...

How degrading. These people are disgusting. Human trafficking for Jesus. Yay! And, she got another little adoptling, too! Wonder what HER story is? Dig a little deeper- Evil likes to lurk just below the shadows.

Thanks to my friend Dory who found out the real scoop on this.