Description
All through the peak of racist anti-Chinese U.S. immigration laws, illegal aliens were ready to return into the States under false papers identifying them as the sons of people who had returned to China to marry and have children. American Paper Son is the tale of one such Chinese immigrant who came to Wichita, Kansas, in 1935 as a thirteen-year-old paper son to lend a hand in his father’s restaurant there. This vivid first-person account addresses significant themes in Asian American history in the course of the lens of Wong’s personal stories. Wong served in some of the all-Chinese units of the 14th Air Force in China All through World War II and he discusses the have an effect on of race and segregation on his experience.