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092    BIO|bHILGERS 
100 1  Hilgers, Lauren,|eauthor. 
245 10 Patriot Number One :|bAmerican dreams in Chinatown /
       |cLauren Hilgers. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bCrown Publishers,|c2018. 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    324 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
520    In 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a 
       village revolutionary from Southern China considered his 
       options. Zhuang Liehong was the son of a fisherman, the 
       former owner of a small tea shop, and the spark that had 
       sent his village into an uproarpitting residents against a
       corrupt local government. Instead, sensing an impending 
       crackdown, Zhuang and his wife, Little Yan, left their 
       infant son with relatives and traveled to America. With 
       few contacts and only a shaky grasp of English, they had 
       to start from scratch. Hilgers follows this dauntless 
       family through a world hidden in plain sight: a byzantine 
       network of employment agencies and language schools, of 
       underground asylum brokers and illegal dormitories that 
       Flushing's Chinese community relies on for survival. With 
       a novelist's eye for character and detail, Hilgers 
       captures the joys and indignities of building a life in a 
       new countryand the stubborn allure of the American dream. 
       --|cadapted from Amazon description. 
650  0 Chinese|zNew York (State)|zNew York. 
650  0 Chinese|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xSocial conditions. 
650  0 Chinese Americans|zNew York (State)|zNew York. 
650  0 Chinese Americans|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xSocial 
       conditions. 
650  0 Immigrants|zNew York (State)|zNew York. 
651  0 Flushing (New York, N.Y.) 
651  0 China|xEmigration and immigration|xHistory|y21st century. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft