Born American: A Chinese Woman's Dream of Liberty
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (906 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003MNH7T4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 370 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Had to be written" according to Miss B.. Ms. Gong is a life that had to be lived and a woman who needed to tell her story. Remarkable journey which continues till today to inspire others, particularly immigrants to aspire to achieve all their dreams This is a must read.
It is the story of Sasha Gong's long journey home. Here in the United States, she says, she can be both American and Chinese. Welcome home, Sasha Gong.. Sasha was born not in the United States but in China, and she arrived there during a time of great economic and political distress. In the three years after her birth in 1956, a massive, politically in-duced famine left upwards of 30 million Chinese people dead. The more American she becomes the prouder she is of her Chinese heritage, the more she is able to re-turn to its traditional Confucian values. And as everyone who knows her can surely attest, the rebel in her remains, more daring than devout. Sev-eral years later, communist party Chairman Mao Zedong launched the disastrous Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a massive, decade-long political campaign that turned millions of China's most talented and potentially productive citizens into enemies of the state. Sasha says that being a citizen of the United States has allowed her to become more Chinese. From the Foreword by Anne Thurston: Born American will warm the heart of every American who reads it