After the Hmong fled atrocities in southern China, they became trapped in a civil war in Laos and involved in an alliance with the United States, fighting against the Communists expansion in Indochina during the Vietnam War. The Hmong who sided with the United States in the war, however, faced unimaginable suffering.
In A World Without Boundaries, Ge Xiong weaves details of haunting and vivid accounts of the suffering of a people in a social and political culture that perpetuated nepotism, corruption, and wars, while fostering inequality among ethnicities, genders, and socio-economic castes.
This a story of acts of bloodshed, heartbreak, love, and sacrifice, and–above all–of a people who continue to endure many difficulties, yet strive to achieve a better life in an increasingly complex world after they have lost everything.
