Patriot Number One: American dreams in Chinatown
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New York : Crown Publishers, 2018.
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324 pages ; 24 cm
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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. --
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LC Subjects
China -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 21st century.
Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York.
Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York.
Flushing (New York, N.Y.)
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York.
Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York.
Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York.
Flushing (New York, N.Y.)
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Book
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780451496133, 0451496132
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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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Hilgers, L. (2018). Patriot Number One: American dreams in Chinatown. New York, Crown Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hilgers, Lauren. 2018. Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown. New York, Crown Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hilgers, Lauren, Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown. New York, Crown Publishers, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hilgers, Lauren. Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown. New York, Crown Publishers, 2018.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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