... dreams about "shrinking babies" and "airplanes" screaming across the sky. Furthermore, the place she is taught to call home, for all she really knows of it, is nothing more than "a Chinatown bigger than the ones here." Chapter Four: At the Western Palace Summary Brave Orchid's sister, Moon Orchid, is moving to America from Hong Kong. Brave Orchid has not seen her ... ...

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... -eight Chinese, wounding fifteen, and destroying property worth $140,000. The Qing Government's only retaliation was blocking a newly appointed U.S. ambassador (Koehn 7). Because of the Exclusion Act many families were separated. Chinatown in America was known as the "Bachelor Society." The Chinese American population declined from "over 100,000 in 1882 to around 85,000 in 1920" (Koehn 7). "In 1890, the imbalan ... ...

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