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The snakehead: an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and by Keefe, Patrick Radden is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Cheng Chui Ping slipped into the United States in the early 1980s, part of a huge wave of Chinese immigrants hoping to realize the American Dream. Her path to that dream began with an underground bank for illegal immigrants run out of a noodle shop in New York City's Chinatown. She became known as Sister Ping and built a global people-smuggling conglomerate that stretched from China’s Fujian province to Africa, Europe, and South America, relying on one of Chinatown’s most violent gangs to protec
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- Author
- Keefe, Patrick Radden
- Publisher
- Anchor;Doubleday
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385521307
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, True Crime, Social Science
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (992 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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