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383 “After being there for a period of time”: Ko-lin Chin, in Paul J. Smith, ed., Human Smuggling, p. 187.
383 “they can make a fortune”: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 12, 2000.
383 some sweatshop owners paid no wages: Downtown Express, June 21, 1993.
383 “To tell you the truth”: Ko-lin Chin, Smuggled Chinese, pp. 130-31.
383 surpassed even that of Wall Street: Ronald Skeldon, ed., Reluctant Exiles?, p. 262; L. Ling-chi Wang, “Politics of Assimilation and Repression,” p. 515.
384 broken sprinkler systems: Alan Finder, “Despite Tough Laws, Sweatshops Flourish,” New York Times, February 6, 1995, p. A1.
384 ninety dollars a month: Peter Kwong, The New Chinatown, p. 180.
384 “Most of our villagers considered America heaven”: Dan Barry, “Chinatown Fires May Stem from a Hoax to Get Housing,” New York Times, November 29, 1995.
384 typically worked off their debt to the snakeheads in four years: Author interview with Ko-lin Chin, January 8, 2003.
384 “They are hard-working and ambitious”: Ibid.
384 “They now drive Mercedes-Benzes”: Ibid.
385 “If smugglers want the money”: Alex Fryer, “Chinese Stowaways in America,” Seattle Times, January 23, 2000.
385 Gao Liqin: Seth Faison, “Brutal End to an Immigrant’s Voyage of Hope,” New York Times, October 2, 1995, p. A1; Randy Kennedy, “Murder Charges Sought in Immigrant’s Slaying,” New York Times, September 21, 1995.
385 “If you work hard and stay out of trouble”: New York Times, October 2, 1995.
385 “You can hide for a few years”: Ashley Dunn, “After the Golden Venture, the Ordeal Continues,” New York Times, June 5, 1994.
385 “You have friends”: Ibid.
386 cheap, gaudy replicas of European castles: Antoaneta Bezlova, “Town Is Changed as Chinese Seek Fortunes Abroad,” USA Today, February 16, 2000; Interpress Service, January 24, 2000; Los Angeles Times, June 21, 1993.
386 wore gold jewelry and carried cell phones: Marlowe Hood, “Sourcing the Problem: Why Fuzhou?,” in Paul J. Smith, ed., Human Smuggling, p. 82.
386-87 half-constructed palatial homes: Seattle Times, April 16, 2000; Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Despite High Risk, Chinese Go West; Emigrants Pay Snakehead Smugglers to Get to the Promised Land,” International Herald Tribune, June 27, 2000.
387 “So no one in the village works”: International Herald Tribune, June 27, 2000.
387 “populated only by old people”: Marlowe Hood, “Sourcing the Problem: Why Fuzhou?,” in in Paul J. Smith, ed., Human Smuggling, p. 80.
387 paying a $1,000 fee, plus airfare, to have their infants safely delivered: Somini Sengupta, “Squeezed by Debt and Time, Mothers Ship Babies to China,” New York Times, September 14, 1999.
387 “I am sacrificing myself to bring happiness to my family”: Ko-lin Chin, Smuggled Chinese, p. 18.
387 “Look at your salary”: Seattle Times, April 16, 2000.
Chapter Twenty. An Uncertain Future
390 “Asian Americans feel like we’re a guest in someone else’s house”: Mia Tuan, Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites? The Asian Ethnic Experience Today (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998), p. 4.
390 astronauts: In 2003, the two Chinese American astronauts active in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration were Dr. Leroy Chiao and Dr. Edward Tsang Lin. In 1985, Dr. Taylor Wang flew on STS-51B Challenger, the first operational Spacelab mission.
390 “Funny, you don’t sound like a Wong”: Author correspondence with Ben Wong, West Covina City Council member, December 2000.
390-91 one in every six medical doctors: Nightline, ABC News, June 28, 1999.
391 “don our accents”: Author correspondence with Rosalind Chao.
391 “People like Asian-American dolls in costumes”: A magazine, August/September 2000, p. 10.
391 “Are you in the Chinese Air Force?”: Ted W. Lieu, “A Question of Loyalty,” Washington Post, June 19, 1999.
392 “In those early days at CBS”: Author interview with Connie Chung, August 28, 2000.
392 “Connie Chink”: Civil Rights Issues Facing Asian Americans in the 1990s, p. 44.
392 “How can you let a gook design this?”: Maya Lin—A Strong Clear Vision,