Fae Myenne Ng, Preservationist: An Asian American Author Who Refuses to Assimilate

Fae Myenne Ng.

There are lost periods in the history of California.  How many people know that well after California banned slavery, entering the Union as a free state in 1850, Chinese girls and women were sold as slaves in California?  Fae Myenne Ng doesn’t want to forget. 

Even at sixty-eight years of age, this celebrated author has a lot to say to younger generations of Chinese in America and to the rest of us children and grandchildren of immigrants. Ng sees herself as a preservationist...