Maid In China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maid In China write by Wanning Sun. This book was released on 2009-01-21. Maid In China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This compelling book examines the mobility of domestic workers, at both material and symbolic levels, and of the formation and social mobility of the urban middle-class through its consumption of domestic service.
Made in China
Made in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Made in China write by Anna Qu. This book was released on 2021-08-03. Made in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future. 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.
Maid to Order in Hong Kong
Maid to Order in Hong Kong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maid to Order in Hong Kong write by Nicole Constable. This book was released on 2007. Maid to Order in Hong Kong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An ethnography with a twist, in that it portrays the domestic workers in their own terms, speaking for themselves through their experiences and reactions, including the strategies of resistance developed by the workers." China Journal"
Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society
Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society write by Rubie S. Watson. This book was released on 1991-04-02. Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, political, economic, and gender inequalities that have so characterized Chinese society.
Tiger Trap
Tiger Trap - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tiger Trap write by David Wise. This book was released on 2011-06-14. Tiger Trap available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A stunningly detailed history . . . from sexy socialite double agents to ‘kill switches’ implanted offshore in the computer chips for our electric grid” (R. James Woolsey, former director of Central Intelligence). For decades, while America obsessed over Soviet spies, China quietly penetrated the highest levels of government. Now, for the first time, based on numerous interviews with key insiders at the FBI and CIA as well as with Chinese agents and people close to them, David Wise tells the full story of China’s many victories and defeats in its American spy wars. Two key cases interweave throughout: Katrina Leung, code-named Parlor Maid, worked for the FBI for years even after she became a secret double agent for China, aided by love affairs with both of her FBI handlers. Here, too, is the inside story of the case, code-named Tiger Trap, of a key Chinese-American scientist suspected of stealing nuclear weapons secrets. These two cases led to many others, involving famous names from Wen Ho Lee to Richard Nixon, stunning national security leaks, sophisticated cyberspying, and a West Coast spy ring whose members were sentenced in 2010. As concerns swirl about US-China relations and the challenges faced by our intelligence community, Tiger Trap provides an important overview from “America’s premier writer on espionage” (The Washington Post Book World). “Wise’s conclusion is sobering—China’s spying on America is ongoing, current, and shows no signs of diminishing—and his book is a fascinating history of Chinese espionage.” —Publishers Weekly “A fact-filled inside account, with sources named and no one spared.” —Seymour M. Hersh
