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Sister Ping
Cheng Chui Ping (), also known as Sister Ping (萍姐 Píng Jiě; January 9, 1949 – April 24, 2014), ran a notorious Chinese human smuggling operation from New York City and Hong Kong from 1984 until 2000, when she was arrested in Hong Kong, extradited back to the United States, and held in U.S. Federal prison until her death in April 2014.
==Early life==
Ping was born January 9, 1949 in the poor farming village of Shengmei ("Prospering Beauty") in northern Fujian province, China. Ping's father, Cheng Chai Leung, who was from Shengmei, and mother, who was from a neighboring village, had five children in all. Ping was 10 months old when Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China.〔 She attended the village elementary school as a child and worked on the family farm, helping raise pigs and rabbits, chopping wood, and tending a vegetable garden. According to Ping's biographer, Patrick Radden Keefe, who interviewed her in 2008, Ping said that as a girl of 12 years old she survived the capsizing of a rowboat in which she had been traveling to another village to cut wood for kindling. She recalled of the incident that all of the people in the boat who had been rowing and had been holding an oar when the boat turned over managed to survive, while "the two people who were lazy and sat back while others worked ended up dead. This taught me to work hard."〔 Ping also said that during the Cultural Revolution, she became a leader of the Red Guard in her village.〔
When she was 15, her father left the family and traveled to the United States as a merchant marine crewman. He stayed in the US for 13 years, working as a dishwasher and sending money home to the family every few months. He was apprehended by U.S. immigration authorities and deported back to China in 1977. When he returned to China, Ping's father entered into the business of smuggling people.〔
Sister Ping married a man from a neighboring village, Cheung Yick Tak, in 1969.〔 They had a daughter, Cheng "Monica" Hui Mui, in 1973;〔 Ping later had 3 other children.〔 The family moved to Hong Kong in 1974.〔 Passing through Canada, they settled in New York City's Chinatown, in the United States, in 1981, where they opened a shop, the Tak Shun Variety Store, catering to homesick Fujianese immigrants.〔
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