Chinese Girl in the Ghetto

Download or read book Chinese Girl in the Ghetto written by Ying Ma and published by Ying Ma. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China opens itself to the world and undertakes historic economic reforms, a little girl in the southern city of Guangzhou immerses herself in a world of fantasy and foreign influences while grappling with the mundane vagaries of Communist rule. She happily immigrates to Oakland, California, expecting her new life to be far better in all ways than life in China. Instead, she discovers crumbling schools, unsafe streets, and racist people. In the land of the free, she comes of age amid the dysfunction of a city's brokenness and learns to hate in the shadows of urban decay. This is the unforgettable story of her journey from China to an American ghetto and how she prevailed.