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Li Keng Wong Biography
She was born on April the year of 1988.(McFarland 1)Her name means beautiful jade in Chinese.(McFarland 1)They lived in a village called Goon Do Hong.(McFarland 2) She moved to America on Gold Mountain.(McFarland 21)She had a chance to win the lottery.(McFarland 93)Than the celebrated something called a yaka bong. (McFarland 31)She soon learned English.(McFarland 95)She also had children she was hoping her first was a boy.(McFarland 97)Li keng’s mom wished she was a boy and not a girl.(McFarland 21)Li keng worries too much about the known.(McFarland 31)America told Baba that they didn’t want a lot of poor people in America.(McFarland 1) A Chinese labor was not allowed to bring his wife to America.(McFarland 1) Once they was …show more content…
(McFarland 137) Someone in town once told Li keng that the sidewalk was paved with gold but they wasn’t and she was disappointed.(McFarland 1) Chinese immigration remained severely restricted.(McFarland 135)Baba and Mama opened a chinese restaurant in oakland’s chinatown.(McFarland 128) They would work eighteen hours a day.(McFarland
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