Resource August 25, 2017

Meet the Journalist: Rong Xiaoqing

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Why are people who were smuggled to the U.S. from a rural high school in China three decades ago now...

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Chen Jihua, an auxillary policeman in New York, patrols in Brooklyn. He didn't see his daughter for 16 years after being smuggled into the U.S. by Chinese snakeheads. Image by Rong Xiaoqing. United States, 2016.
Chen Jihua, an auxillary policeman in New York, patrols in Brooklyn. He didn't see his daughter for 16 years after being smuggled into the U.S. by Chinese snakeheads. Image by Rong Xiaoqing. United States, 2016.

Rong Xiaoqing reported in the U.S. and China on the twists and turns in the lives of a few dozen Chinese who were smuggled into the United States from rural China 30 years ago. In this "Meet the Journalist" video, Rong discusses the challenges she faced in pursuing the project, and the surprising revelation that occurred along the way.

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