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Novel 'Four Treasures of the Sky' focuses on the horrors of the Chinese Exclusion Act
Novel 'Four Treasures of the Sky' focuses on the horrors of the Chinese Exclusion Act
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Jul 11, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Author Jenny Tinghui Zhang is out with a new historical fiction novel, Four Treasures of The Sky. Set in the 1800s during the height of anti-Chinese sentiment, a young girl named Daiyu is kidnapped and brought to the U.S. Zhang told NPR's Ayesha Rascoe that she has seen a lot of reviews that refer to this book as 'timely' – and that she does not think that is a good thing when a book is about racism.
Released:
Jul 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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