Born in China, raised in US: adoptees explore the meaning of identity at Lunar New Year

SCMP · 2026-02-19
Born in China, raised in US: adoptees explore the meaning of identity at Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year wasn’t always on LuLu Grant’s radar. Adopted at two from Fuzhou, China and raised in the US state of Washington, Grant decided to cut her birth country out of her life at a young age. Decades later, she would celebrate Spring Festival alongside her birth family with a complex array of