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Chinese Whispers
Hsiao-Hung Pai
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Description for Chinese Whispers
Paperback. There are thousands of undocumented Chinese immigrants in Britain. They've travelled here because of desperate poverty, and must keep their heads down and work themselves to the bone. This book reveals a shadowy world where human beings are exploited in ways unimaginable in our civilized twenty-first century. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; KCFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 206.
You know the people in this book.
You’ll remember the harassed waitress from your local Chinese restaurant. You’ve noticed those builders across the street working funny hours and without helmets. You’ve eaten the lettuce they picked, or bought the microwave they assembled. The words ‘cockle-pickers’, ‘Morecambe Bay’, ‘Chinese illegals found dead in lorry’ will ring a bell.
But did you know that there are hundreds of thousands of undocumented Chinese immigrants in Britain? They’ve travelled here because of desperate poverty, and must keep their heads down and work themselves to the bone.
Hsiao-Hung ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141035680
SKU
V9780141035680
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Hsiao-Hung Pai
Hsiao-Hung Pai was born in Taiwan and came to Britain in 1991. She first started writing for Chinese publications and later for the Guardian, specialising in stories about the Chinese community. She covered the Morecambe cockle picking tragedy for The Guardian and in order to understand the plight of other Chinese migrants, she went undercover, and is the only journalist ... Read more
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