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    RED DRAGON RISING

    Mar 28, 2022 3 minutes
    Text SARA SIGUION-REYNA

    BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY: A MEMOIR OF AN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDHOOD

    BY QIAN JULIE WANG

    Seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994. She knows no word of English, but she knows that the Chinese word for America is “Mei Guo,” which means “beautiful country.” However, the America she sees is far from the imagined idea: her parents in China were professors, in the United States they work in illegal sweatshops.

    The toil of the day encroaches on their new life and relationship with each

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