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A young Chinese girl forced to work in a New York sweatshop calls
child services on her mother in this powerful memoir about labour
and self-worth, economic revolution and cultural dislocation. As a
teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment
factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers
punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to
teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their
tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu
alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with
consequences that impact the rest of her life. Nearly twenty years
later, estranged from her mother and working at a Manhattan
start-up, Qu requests her social services report. When it arrives,
key details are wrong. Faced with this false narrative, and on the
brink of losing her job as the once-shiny start-up collapses, Qu
looks once more at her life's truths, from abandonment to an
abusive family to seeking meaning in work. Travelling from Wenzhou
to Xi'an to New York, Made in China is a fierce memoir unafraid to
ask thorny questions about trauma and survival, capitalism, and the
struggle for individual dignity.
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