they could, once again, pool their resources: Kwong and Mišcevic, Chinese America 328–29.
Others spent months on boats: Chin, Smuggled Chinese 3–5.
The money her family collected: “China People’s Welfare Development Report 2013,” China Family Panel Studies, University of Peking (2013) (Chinese).
Visa officers were more suspicious: These estimates, and remarks about the difficulty of obtaining a visa, were obtained from interviews conducted in Fujian Province, and among Fujianese immigrants in New York, in the spring and summer of 2015.
a boat called the Golden Venture: Chin, Smuggled Chinese, 193.
founded on Long Island: Long Island Business Institute website, http://www.libi.edu/about-libi/history.html.
Chapter 13: Wukan! Wukan! Land and Committee
“Wukan offers democratic model”: Rahul Jacob and Jamil Anderlini, “Wukan Offers Democratic Model for China,” Financial Times, January 30, 2012.
“Rebel Chinese village prepares”: Malcolm Moore, “Wukan: Rebel Chinese Village Prepares to Hold Extraordinary Elections,” Telegraph, January 31, 2012.
“putting the public first”: Wu Gang, “Put Public First When Solving Land Disputes,” Global Times, December 22, 2011.
beginning of a sea change: “Wukan a Model for Democracy,” South China Morning Post, February 6, 2012.
a political reform that had already failed: Kevin J. O’Brien and Rongbin Han, “Path to Democracy? Assessing Village Elections in China,” Journal of Contemporary China 18, no. 60 (2009): 359–78.
Chapter 15: Personal Shopping
The system was so convenient: “Mainland China’s Luxury Spending Continued Its Decline in 2015, However, Emerging Signs Signal a Reversal in 2016,” Bain & Company, January 20, 2016, http://www.bain.com/about/press/press-releases/China-Luxury-Report-2016-press-release.aspx.
Chapter 19: A Man of Wukan
a bookseller who had been kidnapped: Karen Cheung and Tom Grundy, “Detained Bookseller Lee Bo Says He Will ‘Give Up’ UK Residency in Chinese TV ‘Interview,’ ” Hong Kong Free Press, February 29, 2016.
“Life is like a live broadcast”: Echo Huang and Isabella Steger, “Coming to You in an Eight-Part TV Series: Forced Confessions by Allegedly Corrupt Chinese Officials,” Quartz, October 18, 2016.
“I took kickbacks”: “Election ‘Village Chief’ Confesses to Taking ‘Huge Bribes,’ ” China Global Television Network, June 21, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXJ9Nj7jUzc.
Chapter 21: Politics
progressives were banning: Eileen Guo, “How WeChat Spreads Rumors, Reaffirms Bias, and Helped Elect Trump,” Wired, April 20, 2017.
less than half of the Asian Americans: Karthick Ramakrishnan and Farah Z. Ahmad, State of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Series: A Multifaceted Report of a Growing Population (Washington, D.C.: Center for American Progress, 2014), 64, https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/AAPIReport-comp.pdf.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LAUREN HILGERS lived in Shanghai, China, for six years. Her articles have appeared in Harper’s, Wired, Businessweek, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in New York with her husband and their daughter.
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