Made in China : a memoir of love and labour

Resource Information

The work Made in China : a memoir of love and labour represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Made in China : a memoir of love and labour

Title remainder

a memoir of love and labour

Statement of responsibility

Anna Qu

Title variation

Memoir of love and labour

Creator

• Qu, Anna

Author

• Qu, Anna

Subject

• Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• Mothers and daughters -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• New York (State), Office of Family and Children Services
• Abused children -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• Sweatshops -- New York (State) | New York
• Qu, Anna
• Chinese -- United States -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labour and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future. As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson- she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life. Nearly twenty years later, estranged from her mother and working at a Manhattan start-up, Qu requests her OCFS report. When it arrives, key details are wrong. Faced with this false narrative, and on the brink of losing her job as the once-shiny start-up collapses, Qu looks once more at her life's truths, from abandonment to an abusive family to seeking dignity and meaning in work

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

SALS

Dewey number

305.48895

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult