Ah Song Hi leaves Shanghai full of faith in America as the land of the free, writing home to his friend Ching-Foo. In seven letters he describes what happens next in San Francisco: exploitation, beatings, a stacked court and an indifferent law, each new humiliation recorded with heartbreaking innocence.
A short, scorching satire of anti-Chinese prejudice from 1870, modelled on Goldsmith’s Citizen of the World. Download the free EPUB.