Part 1 of Essay
Jing mei went to China, not only to meet her sisters she never met before, but more importantly, to learn more about her family heritage and background. She wanted to find out who she really was deep inside. She also had a number of unanswered questions about her mother that she wanted to discover. Living in the United St ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... country. She envisioned a poor country containing small villages, with people who would not have the slightest idea of what it felt like to have the same luxuries that many Americans are fortunate to have. She later found out that she was totally wrong. Right from the beginning she was surprised as she arrived at the train station where she saw crowds of people wearing drab Western clothes, as she described, with spots of bright colors and old ladies in gray tops and pants that stop mid-calf. She had to rem ....