Made in China : a memoir of love and labour
Qu, Anna2022
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A young Chinese girl forced to work in a New York sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful memoir about labour and self-worth, economic revolution and cultural dislocation. 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. Travelling from Wenzhou to Xi'an to New York, 'Made in China' is a fierce memoir unafraid to ask thorny questions about trauma and survival, capitalism, and the struggle for individual dignity.
Main title:
Made in China : a memoir of love and labour / Anna Qu.
Author:
Qu, Anna, author
Imprint:
London : Scribe UK, 2022.
Collation:
224 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781914484087 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.76092920920QU920 QU
LC class:
HV6626.52
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3080188