In New York's Chinatown, gratitude and mourning for 'mother of all snakeheads'

... the term snakehead, from the Chinese translation for human smuggler. But along East Broadway in New York's Chinatown this weekend, where Cheng was known as kindly Sister Ping, the untold numbers of Fujianese immigrants who arrived here with her aid, ...

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