Agency via Guilt in Anchee Min's Red Azalea.(Critical Essay)

From: MELUS | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: Xu, Wenying | Copyright information

The number of Mainland Chinese legally entering the United States has been soaring since 1978. Although a large number of them came as students and visiting scholars, many have acquired citizenship or status as resident aliens. In 1997 alone 41,100 Mainland Chinese entered the United States as legal immigrants (Statistical 11) and 46,958 as students (Digest 472). This growing community has found almost no voice in its newly adopted country other than through the publication of pers...

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