American Paper Son Format: Paperback

Wayne Hung Wong

ISBN 10: 0252072634 / ISBN 13: 9780252072635

Published by University of Chicago press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: American Paper Son Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252072634
• ISBN 13: 9780252072635
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Wayne Hung Wong served in the U.S. Army 987th Signal Operation Company all-Chinese American unit during World War II and lived in Wichita, KS. Benson Tong is an independent scholar.