The Resource The snakehead : an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream, Patrick Radden Keefe
The snakehead : an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream, Patrick Radden Keefe
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- Summary
- A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss--Sister Ping--and the intricate human trafficking network she created from her business in New York City's Chinatown, together with a panoramic tale about the gangland gunslingers who worked for her, the immigration and law enforcement officials who pursued her, and the generation of penniless immigrants who risked death to realize their own version of the American dream
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 414 p.
- Contents
-
- Pilgrims
- Leaving Fujian
- Eighteen-thousand dollar woman
- Dai Lo of the Fuk Ching
- Swiftwater
- Year of the snake
- Mombasa
- The phantom ship
- The teaneck massacre
- Mutiny in the Atlantic
- A well-founded fear
- The fat man
- Freedom birds
- The goldfish and the great wall
- Parole
- Snakeheads international
- Catching Lilly Zhang
- The mother of all Snakeheads
- Isbn
- 9780385521307
- Label
- The snakehead : an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream
- Title
- The snakehead
- Title remainder
- an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream
- Statement of responsibility
- Patrick Radden Keefe
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss--Sister Ping--and the intricate human trafficking network she created from her business in New York City's Chinatown, together with a panoramic tale about the gangland gunslingers who worked for her, the immigration and law enforcement officials who pursued her, and the generation of penniless immigrants who risked death to realize their own version of the American dream
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1976-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Keefe, Patrick Radden
- Dewey number
- 364.1/370973
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ281
- LC item number
- .K44 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Human trafficking
- Undocumented immigrants
- Human smuggling
- United States
- Label
- The snakehead : an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream, Patrick Radden Keefe
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-404) and index
- Contents
- Pilgrims -- Leaving Fujian -- Eighteen-thousand dollar woman -- Dai Lo of the Fuk Ching -- Swiftwater -- Year of the snake -- Mombasa -- The phantom ship -- The teaneck massacre -- Mutiny in the Atlantic -- A well-founded fear -- The fat man -- Freedom birds -- The goldfish and the great wall -- Parole -- Snakeheads international -- Catching Lilly Zhang -- The mother of all Snakeheads
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 414 p.
- Isbn
- 9780385521307
- Isbn Type
- (hc)
- Lccn
- 2008050049
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn264044131
- Label
- The snakehead : an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream, Patrick Radden Keefe
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-404) and index
- Contents
- Pilgrims -- Leaving Fujian -- Eighteen-thousand dollar woman -- Dai Lo of the Fuk Ching -- Swiftwater -- Year of the snake -- Mombasa -- The phantom ship -- The teaneck massacre -- Mutiny in the Atlantic -- A well-founded fear -- The fat man -- Freedom birds -- The goldfish and the great wall -- Parole -- Snakeheads international -- Catching Lilly Zhang -- The mother of all Snakeheads
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 414 p.
- Isbn
- 9780385521307
- Isbn Type
- (hc)
- Lccn
- 2008050049
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn264044131
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