After school, Wang worked alongside her mother in clothing sweatshops and a sushi processing plant. Unable to speak English or Cantonese, Wang was initially placed in a special-needs classroom, but was returned to mainstream instruction after she was observed teaching herself to read English through picture books. 124 in Chinatown, but few of her classmates and teachers spoke Mandarin Chinese, thus isolating her even within a seemingly familiar community. After their temporary visas expired, the Wang family remained in the United States as undocumented immigrants in Brooklyn. Wang's father fled China to the United States when she was five Wang and her mother followed two years later in 1994. Wang's mother was a professor of mathematics, while Wang's father was a professor of English and critic of the government, which led to the family being persecuted. Qian Wang was born in Shijiazhuang, China to academic parents. Qian Julie Wang ( Chinese: 王乾) is a Chinese-American writer and civil rights lawyer.
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