Made in China : a memoir of love and labor / Anna Qu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Qu, Anna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qu, Anna.

Chinese Americans--Biography.

Chinese Americans.

Clothing trade.

Sweatshops.

Abused children.

Mothers and daughters.

Immigrants.

Chinese.

New York (State)--New York.

United States.

China.

Chinese--United States--Biography.

Immigrants--China--Biography.

Immigrants--United States--Biography.

Mothers and daughters--United States--Biography.

Abused children--United States--Biography.

Sweatshops--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Clothing trade--New York (State)--New York--Anecdotes.

New York (State). Office of Family and Children Services.

New York (State).

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

215 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Made in China

Place of Publication:

New York : Catapult, [2021]

Summary:

"As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life. Nearly twenty years later, estranged from her mother and working at a Manhattan start-up, Qu requests her OCFS report. When it arrives, key details are wrong. Faced with this false narrative, and on the brink of losing her job as the once-shiny start-up collapses, Qu looks once more at her life's truths, from abandonment to an abusive family to seeking dignity and meaning in work. Traveling from Wenzhou to Xi'an to New York, Made in China is a fierce memoir unafraid to ask thorny questions about trauma and survival in immigrant families, the meaning of work, and the costs of immigration."--Amazon.

ISBN:

9781646220342

164622034X

OCLC:

1260437701