As China opens itself to the world and undertakes historic economic reforms, a little Girl in the southern city of Guangzhou immerses herself in a world of fantasy and foreign influences while grappling with the mundane vagaries of Communist rule.
In the land of the free, she comes of age amid the dy.
Instead, she discovers crumbling schools, unsafe streets, and racist people.
She happily immigrates to Oakland, California, expecting her new life to be far better in all ways than life in China.
As China opens itself to the world and undertakes historic economic reforms, a little Girl in the southern city of Guangzhou immerses herself in a world of fantasy and foreign influences while grappling with the mundane vagaries of Communist rule