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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY
New York Times Critics • Wall Street Journal • Kirkus Reviews
Christian Science Monitor • San Francisco Chronicle

Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

The deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, forging a life between two worlds
 
In 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a village revolutionary from Southern China considered his options. Zhuang Liehong was the son of a fisherman, the former owner of a small tea shop, and the spark that had sent his village into an uproar—pitting residents against a corrupt local government. Under the alias Patriot Number One, he had stoked a series of pro-democracy protests, hoping to change his home for the better. Instead, sensing an impending crackdown, Zhuang and his wife, Little

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      Publisher: Broadway Books
      Publication Date: 09/04/2019
      ISBN13: 9780451496140, 978-0451496140
      ISBN10: 0451496140

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      Book Synopsis
      NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY
      New York Times Critics • Wall Street Journal • Kirkus Reviews
      Christian Science Monitor • San Francisco Chronicle

      Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award
      Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

      The deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, forging a life between two worlds
       
      In 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a village revolutionary from Southern China considered his options. Zhuang Liehong was the son of a fisherman, the former owner of a small tea shop, and the spark that had sent his village into an uproar—pitting residents against a corrupt local government. Under the alias Patriot Number One, he had stoked a series of pro-democracy protests, hoping to change his home for the better. Instead, sensing an impending crackdown, Zhuang and his wife, Little

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