Things We Carry on the Sea By Wang Ping (Grades 7-9)

“Things We Carry on the Sea” by Wang Ping tells of the different stories, skills, and experiences carried by immigrants from Eastern Asia, often to a place that disregards their labor and hard work.These places treat the refugees who now provide for their nations without welcome, forcing them to drift without a place to call home. Ping, a Chinese-American English professor, is an expert both in writing and multimedia projects, creating exhibits like “Behind the Gate: After the Flood of the Three Gorges” and "We Are Water: Kinship of Rivers,” alongside editing the anthology New Generation: Poetry from China Today. She has also founded the Kinship of Two Rivers project at Macalester College.