About the Book: Chinese Lady: A Novel
As rich in detail and emotion as Amy Tans The Joy Luck Club and Lisa Sees Lady
Tans Circle of Women, but with an exciting structure that reinvents the genre,
Bo Wangs gorgeous and immersive debut historical novel immortalizes the life of
the first Chinese woman to be brought to the United States in the 1800s.
Little Sparrow, Julia, Afong Moy, Madame Moy, The Chinese Lady, were her many
names . . . but her true name has been lost to time.
In 1834 Afong Moy was brought to New York by two