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The Paper Daughters of Chinatown audiobook
- By: Heather B. Moore
- Narrator: Nancy Wu
- Category: Fiction, Historical
- Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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The Paper Daughters of Chinatown Audiobook Summary
A powerful story based on true events surrounding Donaldina Cameron and other brave women who fought to help Chinese-American women escape discrimination and slavery in the late 19th century in California.
When Donaldina Cameron arrives at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895, she intends to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants, but, within days, she discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems. San Francisco has a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization–the criminal tong–brings Chinese young women to America to sell them as slaves. With the help of Chinese interpreters and the Chinatown police squad, Donaldina becomes a tireless social reformer to stop the abominable slave and prostitution trade.
Mei Lien believes she is sailing to the “Gold Mountain” in America to become the wife of a rich Chinese man. Instead she finds herself sold into prostitution–beaten, starved, and forced into an opium addiction. It is only after a narrow escape that she hears of the mission home and dares to think there might be hope for a new life.
The Paper Daughters of Chinatown throws new light on the age-old scourge of human trafficking. The heroes who fought this evil and the victims who triumphed over it more than a hundred years ago offer a bright example of courage and determination for anyone wishing for a better world.
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The Paper Daughters of Chinatown Audiobook Narrator
Nancy Wu is the narrator of The Paper Daughters of Chinatown audiobook that was written by Heather B. Moore
Nancy Wu has narrated audiobooks since 2004, winning three AudioFile Earphones Awards. A New York theater, television, and film actor, she has recorded in studios all over the world–from Italy to Switzerland to Thailand. Her credits include Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Hope & Faith, All My Children, Made for Each Other, and the Oscar-nominated film Frozen River.
About the Author(s) of The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
Heather B. Moore is the author of The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
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The Paper Daughters of Chinatown Full Details
| Narrator | Nancy Wu |
| Length | 13 hours 13 minutes |
| Author | Heather B. Moore |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781799905127 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Paper Daughters of Chinatown is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Historical
Additional info
The publisher of the The Paper Daughters of Chinatown is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Shadow Mountain. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781799905127.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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