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344 approximately ten thousand of them: S. Y. Kuo, Research on Taiwanese Unaccompanied Minors in the United States (Taipei: Institute of American Culture, Academia Sinica), as cited in Chong-Li Edith Chung, p. 1.
344 allowances of $4,000 or more a month: Min Zhou, “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California.”
344 162 Taiwanese adolescents: Chong-Li Edith Chung, pp. x, 87, 88.
344 “It looks happy on the outside”: Min Zhou, “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California.”
345 about $15,000 a year: Ibid.
345 about $40,000: Ibid.
345 “If they’re going to dump me here”: D. Hamilton, “A House, Cash and No Parents,” Los Angeles Times, June 24, 1993, p. A16.
345 “work hard, to focus”: Min Zhou, “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California.”
345 fax them copies of report cards: Ibid.
346 detonated a homemade bomb: Min Zhou, “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California.”
346 charged with arms smuggling: Ibid.
346 San Marino school district: Chong-Li Edith Chung, p. 47.
346 Kuan Nan “Johnny” Chen: Jeff Wong, “‘Parachute Kids’: Latchkey Kids with Cash Vulnerable to Trouble,” Associated Press, May 15, 1999; NBC Nightly News, January 9, 1999.
346-47 two out of three abductions: San Diego Union-Tribune, January 10, 1999.
347 nine out of ten: Associated Press, May 15, 1999.
347 About 80 percent: Min Zhou, “‘Parachute Kids’ in Southern California.”
347 paid $19,000 each: Maggie Farley, “Shanghai Youths Test Welcome Mat in US,” Los Angeles Times, May 3, 1999, p. A1.
347 “In China, we can have only one child”: Ibid.
Chapter Nineteen. High Tech vs. Low Tech
349 40 percent of the country’s assets: Edward N. Wolff, “Recent Trends in Wealth Ownership,” a paper for the Conference on Benefits and Mechanisms for Spreading Asset Ownership in the United States, New York University, December 10-12, 1998; Edward N. Wolff, Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It (New York: New Press, 1996); “A Scholar Who Concentrates ... on Concentrations of Wealth,” Too Much, Winter 1999.
349 lost 80 percent of their net worth: Edward N. Wolff, “Recent Trends in Wealth Ownership,” table 2, “The Size Distribution of Wealth and Income, 1983-1997.”
351 Sources on Jerry Yang: A magazine, June/July 2000, p. 10. “Yahoo,” (chapter 10), in David Kaplan, The Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams (New York: William Morrow, 1999); “Jerry Yang Yahoo! Finding Needles in the Internet’s Haystack,” (chapter 6), in Robert H. Reid, Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days That Built the Future of Business (New York: John Wiley, 1997).
352 Sources on Morris Chang: Author interview with Morris Chang, March 17, 2000; Mark Landler, “The Silicon Godfather: The Man Behind Taiwan’s Rise in the Chip Industry,” New York Times, February 1, 2000.
353 capped the program at 65,000 visas a year: Denver Post, June 18, 2000.
353 115,000 in 1998: Sara Robinson, “High-Tech Workers Are Trapped in Limbo by I.N.S.,” New York Times, February 29, 2000.
353 195,000: Ibid.
354 “white-collar indentured servitude”: Ibid.
354 Swallow Yan: Author correspondence with Swallow Yan, July 2000; The Scientist, May 29, 2000.
355 “Blue Team”: Robert G. Kaiser and Steven Mufson, “‘Blue Team’ Draws a Hard Line on Beijing: Action on Hill Reflects Informal Group’s Clout,” Washington Post, February 22, 2000.
356 Christopher Cox: The three-volume report, commonly referred to as the “Cox Report on Chinese Espionage” (March 1999), is an unclassified version of the Final Report of the United States House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China, a Top Secret report issued on January 3, 1999. For details on how the report misused my research, see Perla Ni, “Rape of Nanking Author Denounces