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'Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown' expertly reveals a hidden immigrant world

On their first day in New York City, the young couple from China ignored the bagels and lox set out before them, marveled at the very idea of a laundromat and wondered why anyone would possibly need more than one knife in the kitchen. Then the husband and wife – one bold and blustery, the other quiet and shy – set about making a new American life like tens of millions of immigrants before them.

But Zhuang and "Little Yan" Liehong are anything

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