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03284aam a2200493Ii 4500 001 1E1E9FA42CCD11E888DF426797128E48 003 SILO 005 20230701010528 008 170703t20182018nyu b 000 0deng d 020 $a 9780451496133 020 $a 0451496132 035 $a (OCoLC)992224185 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d HQD $d GO9 $d LEHIC $d DAD $d IUK $d IOU $d SILO 050 14 $a F128.9.C5 $b H55 2018 082 04 $a 305.895/107471 $2 23 100 1 $a Hilgers, Lauren, $e author. 245 10 $a Patriot number one : $b American dreams in Chinatown / $c Lauren Hilgers. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, $c [2018] 300 $a 324 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-324). 520 $a "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--pitting residents against a corrupt local government. Under the alias Patriot Number One, he had stoked a series of pro-democracy protests, hoping to change his home for the better. 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. In Patriot Number One, 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. As the irrepressibly opinionated Zhuang and the more pragmatic Little Yan pursue legal status and struggle to reunite with their son, we also meet others piecing together a new life in Flushing. Tang, a democracy activist who was caught up in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, is still dedicated to his cause after more than a decade in exile. Karen, a college graduate whose mother imagined a bold American life for her, works part-time in a nail salon as she attends vocational school, and refuses to look backward." - Publisher description. 650 0 $a Chinese $z New York (State) 650 0 $a Chinese $z New York (State) $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Chinese Americans $z New York (State) 650 0 $a Chinese $z United States $x Emigration and immigration. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 14 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611014333.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012014247.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230704012236.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013433.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909052604.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722055326.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110073427.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20190606011121.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20190417011009.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006114451.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180605014253.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20180519010338.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20180501011402.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180321010053.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1E1E9FA42CCD11E888DF426797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search