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COMING SOON:
How to Have an American Baby
Watch it on your local PBS station
Monday, December 11th at 10 p.m. or stream online.
How to Have an American Baby is a kaleidoscopic voyage into the shadow economy that caters to Chinese tourists who travel to the US to give birth in order to obtain citizenship for their babies. Told through a series of intimately observed vignettes, the story of a hidden global economy emerges–depicting the fortunes and tragedies that befall the ordinary people caught in its web.

Don't miss the broadcast premiere of How to Have an American Baby presented by the critically acclaimed television series POV on Monday, December 11th at 10 p.m. ET. Watch it on PBS (check your local listings) or stream it on pbs.org or the PBS App.
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  • “A disquieting expose on how a rapidly changing Chinese economy can exploit not only the desire for a child, but also the desire to bestow that child with privileges that are not themselves Chinese, privileges that American citizens both take for granted and carefully guard.” - Review in Hyperallergic
     
  • “A remarkable and mature work that not only documents a relatively unknown phenomenon and is a testimony to Chinese socioeconomic microcosm in a constant flux, but also a moving and thought provoking snapshot of women in Chinese society.” - Review in Asian Movie Pulse
     
  • “Tai tackles a complex and sensitive topic by centering the story on the voices of her subjects... Rather than pushing a moral agenda onto her audience, she lets their experiences speak for themselves.” - Review in Asia Blooming
     
  • “Sprawling in scope, observational in form and jaw-dropping in access.” - Interview in Filmmaker Magazine
     
  • “A beautifully sustained journey… that left one with a welter of feelings, and not always knowing what to think—which is a good thing.” - Review in Screen Slate
“Instead of trying to capture or illustrate a definitive story about Chinese birth tourism, I wanted to show you the multiplicity of lives, choices, circumstances that are all criss-crossing and colliding in time and space. I conceived of each storyline, including the one that unravels the inner workings of the industry, to be shaped like a rabbit hole–the deeper you go, the more complicated things get, and the less you realize you know.”
- Leslie Tai, Filmmaker
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Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Open Society Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding comes from Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Bertha Foundation, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust, Park Foundation, Sage Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Chris and Nancy Plaut, Abby Pucker, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and public television viewers. POV is presented by a consortium of public television stations, including KQED San Francisco, WGBH Boston and THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG.

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