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Based on a true story of events during World War II in Los Angeles' "China City", Mei Ling in China City is a colorful picturebook about a 12-year-old Chinese American girl who loses her best friend Yayeko Akiyama when she and her family were interned in the Manzanar War Relocation Center. The two girls communicate through letters, sharing what their respective lives are like. Illustrated with watercolor paintings that blend the fine artistry of realism with the subtler emotion of impressionism, and featuring a supplementary section with nearly 50 never-before-published historical black-and-white photographs and paintings, Mei Ling in China City presents a slice of American history, but from the perspective of two distinct Asian communities - the Chinese and Japanese.