I have found that there are some environments where when I go out and report the fact that I am ready for the New Yorker specifically matters a lot in some corners of the world. Some places it doesn't matter at all and they've never heard of the New Yorker and they don't care China time would be very much that I was like a white guy with a notebook which in and of itself was a kind of a threatening product, he says.
Investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe joins us on the podcast to tell the story of an unlikely criminal mastermind, Sister Ping - a middle-aged, hardworking woman who is highly respected among her community. Originally from Fujian province, China, for years she runs an incredibly lucrative people smuggling business from New York's Chinatown until she comes into trouble with violent gangsters and then later the FBI. In conversation with our host Poppy Damon, they discuss immigration, the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and the questions of who gets to stay. They also speak about Patrick's involvement in the Oscar-nominated documentary starring Nan Goldin and directed by Laura Poitras, All The Beauty And The Bloodshed.
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