Episode 449 - William Gee Wong - Sons of Chinatown, A Memoir Rooted in China and America - insights into the Chinese Exclusion Act

About William Gee Wong
William is a print journalist, author, and amateur historian.

A native of Oakland, California's Chinatown, William received his B.A. at the University of California at Berkeley and M.S. at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His print journalism career was spent at The Wall Street Journal (1970-1979) and The Oakland Tribune (1979-1996). He also worked for The San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco News Call Bulletin, and has written for the San Francisco Examiner, East West: the Chinese American Journal, and Asian Week, among other publications.

In the mid-1960s, William served in the Peace Corps in the Philippines.

From 1995-1996, he was a regional commentator for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.

William is the author of

Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America

Sons of Chinatown:
A Memoir Rooted in China and America
William Gee Wong’s father entered the U.S. legally as the “son of a native,” despite having partially false papers. Sons of Chinatown is Wong’s evocative dual memoir of his and his father’s parallel experiences in America.

https://www.williamgeewong.com/

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