| Description |
324 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
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. -- adapted from Amazon description. |
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Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
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Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
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Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Flushing (New York, N.Y.)
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China -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 21st century.
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| Genre |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780451496133 (hardcover) |
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0451496132 (hardcover) |
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