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        2. Born in China and raised in the US, Betty Bao Lord explores her dual identity through novels and nonfiction acknowledging both her Asian and her American sides.
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        4. Bette Bao Lord was born in Shanghai in She immigrated to America with her parents during China's Civil War; they settled in Brooklyn, New York.
        5. Author Bette Bao Lord was born in Shanghai and came to the United States at the age of eight.

          6. Bette Bao Lord

          Chinese-American writer

          Bette Bao Lord (Chinese: 包柏漪, Pinyin: Bāo Bóyì; born November 3, 1938) is a Chinese-born American writer and civic activist for human rights and democracy.

          Early life

          Lord was born as Bette Bao in Shanghai, China. With her mother and father, Dora and Sandys Bao, and her younger sister, Cathy Bao, she came to the United States at the age of eight when her father, a British-trained engineer, was sent there in 1946 by the Chinese government to purchase equipment.

          In 1949 Bette Bao Lord and her family were stranded in the United States when Mao Zedong and his communist rebels won the civil war in China.

          Bette Bao Lord has written eloquently about her childhood experiences as a Chinese immigrant in the post-World War II United States in her autobiographical children's book In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson.

          In this book she describes her efforts to learn English and to become accepted by her classmates and how she succeeds w