Her upbringing in poverty in America is the subject of Wang's breakout memoir Beautiful Country. Wang returned to the United States to attend Swarthmore College. After several years in the US, Wang and her mother emigrated to Canada, in anticipation of better prospects, and her father followed sometime thereafter. Wang's early talent for writing was mistaken as plagiarism by an elementary school teacher, prompting her to deliberately hide her abilities throughout much of her primary education. 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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