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  title info:
    title: Meet me in Venice
    sub title: a Chinese immigrant's journey from the far east to the faraway west
  name:
    name part: Ma, Suzanne
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 161 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm far from the city. Her only connection, a mean-spirited Chinese aunt, puts Ye Pei to work in a small-town café. Rather than giving up and returning to China, a determined Ye Pei takes on a grueling schedule, resolving to save enough money to provide her family with a better future. A groundbreaking work of journalism, Meet Me in Venice provides a personal, intimate account of Chinese individuals in the very act of migration. Suzanne Ma spent years in China and Europe to understand why Chinese people choose to immigrate to nations where they endure hardship, suspicion, manual labor and separation from their loved ones. Today, all eyes are on China and its explosive economic growth. With the rise of the Chinese middle class, Chinese communities around the world are growing in size and prosperity, a development many westerners find unsettling and even threatening. Following Ye Pei's undaunted path, this inspiring book is an engrossing read for those eager to understand contemporary China and the enormous impact of Chinese emigrants around the world.
  table of contents: The bar -- Leaving China -- East meets West -- Chinatown -- La dolce vita -- Shifting tides -- The farm -- A new year.
  note: Suzanne Ma.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Chinese
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Venice
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    geographic: Venice (Italy)
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    genre: Case studies
  classification: DG457.C47 M3 2015
  classification: 305.48/8951045311092 B
  identifier: 9781442239364 (hardcover)
  identifier: 1442239360 (hardcover)
  identifier: 9781442239371 (electronic)
  identifier: 2014027473
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141007
    record change date: 20151106041159.0
    record identifier: in00003521285