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Patriot Number One : American dreams in Chinatown
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Patriot Number One : American dreams in Chinatown
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
324 pages ; 24 cm.
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 uproar{u2014}pitting 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 country{u2014}and the stubborn allure of the American dream. --
Publication Info:
New York : Crown Publishers, 2018.
Subject:
Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York.
Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York.
Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York.
Flushing (New York, N.Y.)
China -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 21st century.
Chinese Americans -- United States
Emigrants
Foreign-born population
Foreign population
Foreigners
Migrants
Flushinge (New York, N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.).
Queens (New York, N.Y.).
Флашинг (New York, N.Y.)
Flashing (New York, N.Y.)
פלאשינג (New York, N.Y.)
Floshing (New York, N.Y.)
法拉盛 (New York, N.Y.)
Falasheng (New York, N.Y.)
Cina
Kinë
Cathay
Chinese National Government
Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu
Republic of China (1912-1949)
Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949)
Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949)
Kina (China)
National Government (1912-1949)
China (Republic : 1912-1949)
People's Republic of China
Chinese People's Republic
Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo
Central People's Government of Communist China
Chung yang jen min cheng fu
Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo
Central Government of the People's Republic of China
Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo
Zhong hua ren min gong he guo
Kitaĭskai͡a Narodnai͡a Respublika
Činská lidová republika
RRT
Republik Rakjat Tiongkok
KNR
Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika
Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah
RRC
Kitaĭ
Kínai Népköztársaság
Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku
Erets Sin
Sin
Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn
P.R. China
PR China
PRC
P.R.C.
Chung-kuo
Zhongguo
Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949)
Zhong guo
Chine
République Populaire de Chine
República Popular China
Catay
VR China
VRChina
中國
中国
中华人民共和国
Jhongguó
Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus
Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus
Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls
BNKhAU
БНХАУ
Khi͡atad
Kitad
Dumdadu Ulus
Dumdad Uls
Думдад Улс
Kitajska
SAILS ISBN:
9780451496133