Sister Ping
| Sister Ping | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Cheng Chui Ping |
| Born | January 9, 1949 |
| Died | April 24, 2014 (aged 65) |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Occupation | Red Guard leader, shopkeeper, human trafficker |
| Years active | 1984 until 2000 |
| Organization | Fuk Ching (Snakeheads) |
| Home town | Shengmei, Fuzhou, Fujian, Republic of China |
| Criminal charge | commit alien smuggling, hostage taking, money laundering, trafficking in ransom proceeds |
| Criminal penalty | 35 years in prison |
| Criminal status | Convicted |
| Spouse(s) | Cheung Yick Tak |
Cheng Chui Ping (simplified Chinese: 郑翠萍; traditional Chinese: 鄭翠萍; pinyin: Zhèng Cuìpíng; Wade–Giles: Cheng Ts'ui-p'ing), 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.
Ping was born January 9, 1949 in the poor farming village of Shengmei, Fuzhou ("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.
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