American Paper Son: A CHINESE IMMIGRANT IN THE MIDWEST (Asian American Experience) - Softcover

Wong, Wayne Hung

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252072634 ISBN 13: 9780252072635

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

In the early and mid-twentieth century, Chinese migrants evaded draconian anti-immigrant laws by entering the US under false papers that identified them as the sons of people who had returned to China to marry. Wayne Hung Wong tells the story of his life after emigrating to Wichita, Kansas, as a thirteen-year-old paper son. After working in his father's restaurant as a teen, Wong served in an all-Chinese Air Force unit stationed in China during World War II. His account traces the impact of race and segregation on his service experience and follows his postwar life from finding a wife in Taishan through his involvement in the government's amnesty program for Chinese immigrants and career in real estate. Throughout, Wong describes the realities of life as part of a small Chinese American community in a midwestern town.

Vivid and rich with poignant insights, American Paper Son explores twentieth-century Asian American history through one person's experiences.

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Benson Tong is an assistant professor of government and history at Gallaudet University. He is the author of The Chinese Americans and other books.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252072634
• ISBN 13: 9780252072635
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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