MEET ME IN VENICE: A CHINESE IMMIGRANT’S JOURNEY FROM THE FAR EAST TO THE FARAWAY WEST
Book ID/图书代码： 06840014B67955
English Summary/英文概要： A real life Girl in Translation with an Italian twist, Meet Me in Venice explores the current flood of Chinese immigrants to the West through the extraordinary story of Ye Pei, a Chinese teenager who sets off to Venice to reunite with her mother, the woman who left her family for Italy when Ye Pei was just a child.When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm over a 150 miles from the city. Her only connection, a meanspirited Chinese auntie who her mother implores to help Ye Pei, puts Ye Pei to work as a barback in a small town café. Rather than giving up and returning to China, Ye Pei takes on a grueling schedule in the café, and resolves to save enough money to provide her family with a better future. Meet Me in Venice is the inspiring story of a sixteen year old girl’s determined search for la dolce vita in a strange and foreign land.
A groundbreaking work of journalism, Meet Me in Venice is the first book to provide a personal, intimate account of Chinese individuals in the act of migration. Recipient of Columbia University School of Journalism’s Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, Ma conducted years of research both in China and across Europe to better understand the complexity of the immigrant dream: why welleducated Chinese people choose to immigrate to nations where they endure hardship, suspicion, manual labor and separation from their loved ones. Today all eyes are on China and its explosive economic growth. With the rise of the Chinese middle class, Chinese communities around the world are growing in size and prosperity, a development many westerners find unsettling, and even threatening. Meet Me in Venice is essential reading for those eager to understand modern China and the enormous impact Chinese emigrants are making all around the world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人在異鄉為異客 一天工作12小時 月領20k (500歐元) 為的是什麼？
中國人的移民夢少小離家老大回
鄉音無改鬢毛衰
兒童相見不相識
笑問客從何處來
Ye Pei的媽媽遠赴義大利威尼斯，在Ye Pei小小的腦海裡，威尼斯是個有貢多拉遊船漫遊其中的魔法城市，而媽媽就在那魔法城市裡，光鮮亮麗、事業有成，張開雙手擁抱許久不見的女兒。
長大後，17歲的青少女Ye Pei從浙江青田縣遠赴義大利尋母，終於來到這魔法城市。
她發現媽媽其實在偏遠的農場做粗工，媽媽請來幫助她的阿姨竟把她塞到小酒吧工作。但Ye Pei並沒有選擇回中國，寧願留在舉目無親的異國，一天工作12個小時，拿500歐元的月薪(相當於20k台幣 / 4,197人民幣)，決心工作存錢。
為什麼教育程度高的中國人會選擇移民到其他國家？
為何頂著大學學歷、在中國有銀行的高薪工作，卻寧願選擇到義大利的布達佩斯，揮汗賣中式炒飯？
在中國，甚至還有烹飪課貼出「想去國外？先學中菜！」的佈告！
在新的國度他們遭遇到的往往是艱困的生活、遭當地人懷疑猜忌、甚至做的工作也是勞力活，然而許多中國人仍毅然決然到異國生活，中國移民社區在全世界的規模和影響力也越來越大。甚至讓許多西方人感到威脅。以書中提及義大利為例，”Made in Italy”的高級時裝幾乎都是出自中國移民之手。
出生於加拿大多倫多，身為華人移民第二代，文字記者Suzanne Ma曾居紐約及香港，在北京念書，從業後研究中國移民經驗多年。在Suzanne Ma走訪各地探訪中國移民時，深受Ye Pei的故事感動，因而決定記錄成書。故事以在歐洲的中國移民為主，其中穿插她研究移民經驗的資料及訪問。
(Eva)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Suzanne Ma’s career in journalism has taken her from Ottawa to New York to Hong Kong and mainland China. Her stories have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Associated Press, and Salon, among others. Much of her work focuses on the Chinese immigrant experience. Born in Toronto, Canada, Suzanne Ma was raised by immigrant parents who forced her to attend Chinese school every Saturday morning. Those Chinese lessons paid off when Ma met her husband while studying abroad in Beijing. His family’s hometown is also Ye Pei’s, and the town’s remarkable 300year history of emigration inspired this book.
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