6/28/2023 0 Comments Wang qian julie![]() ![]() “My mother went on to do a series of pretty physically damaging and emotionally scarring jobs, the worst of which was working at a sushi processing plant in Lower Manhattan where she essentially stood in ice water for her entire 14-hour shift.” “Very early in our time in the United States, I as a child started wondering why we were here at all, because it seemed far worse day-to-day than what we were dealing with in China,” Wang told Brooklyn Magazine earlier this year. ![]() They were undocumented, though, and for the next several years, they were forced to live in a different kind of shadow - the underground world of undocumented immigrants who work menial jobs and live in fear of being discovered. In 1994, at just 7, Wang moved to New York with her mother to join her father, an English professor who had fled here two years earlier. When Wang’s uncle was 18, he was arrested for criticizing Mao Zedong, casting the rest of her family under the oppressive regime’s long shadow. Her memoir, “Beautiful Country,” begins with events during China’s Cultural Revolution that would influence the entirety of her life. All of our stories start well before we are born, and Qian Julie Wang’s is no exception. ![]()
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