Snakehead An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

Name: Snakehead An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
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ISBN: 9780385521307

ISBN-10: 0385521308

ISBN-13: 9780385521307

Edition: 2009

Authors: Patrick Radden Keefe

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A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of "the Don Corleone" of Chinatown. Cheng Chui Ping slipped into the United States in the early 1980s, part of a huge wave of Chinese immigrants hoping to realize the American Dream. Her path to that dream began with an underground bank for illegal immigrants run out of a noodle shop in New York City's Chinatown. She became known as Sister Ping and built a global people-smuggling conglomerate that stretched from China's Fujian province to Africa, Europe, and South America, relying on one of Chinatown's most violent gangs to protect her power and profits. Sister Ping's empire came to light in 1993, when a ship loaded with 300 near-starving…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/21/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Dramatis Personae


Map of Chinatown


Pilgrims


Leaving Fujian


Eighteen-Thousand-Dollar Woman


Dai Lo of the Fuk Ching


Swiftwater


Year of the Snake


Mombasa


The Phantom Ship


The Teaneck Massacre


Mutiny in the Atlantic


A Well-founded Fear


The Fat Man


Freedom Birds


The Goldfish and the Great Wall


Parole


Snakeheads International


Catching Lilly Zhang


The Mother of All Snakeheads


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


A Note on Sources


Notes


Index