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Novel 'Four Treasures of the Sky' focuses on the horrors of the Chinese Exclusion Act

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Four Treasures of the Sky

Charity Nebbe: Jenny Tingwei Zhang's new book is called Four Treasures of the Sky. She asks how it feels to release your book at a time when anti-Asian sentiment and violence are still on the rise. Aisha Durgahee: I don't look at that as a good thing. It would be amazing, but it is not. And so it is unfortunate.

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