Join us as we welcome author William Gee Wong for a discussion about his new book, SONS OF CHINATOWN:A MEMOIR ROOTED IN CHINA AND AMERICA

About this event

The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation will be hosting an online event with Bill Wong. We will discuss his work on the book SONS OF CHINATOWN: A MEMOIR ROOTED IN CHINA AND AMERICA and take questions from the audience. We hope to see you on October 16th!

About the Book

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.

About the Author

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 (Temple University Press, 2001), Images of America: Oakland's Chinatown (Arcadia Publishing Co., 2004), and co-author of Images of America: Angel Island (Arcadia Publishing Co., 2007).

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A Zoom link will appear after registering for our Author Spotlight. This link will allow you to access the program on October 16th. For questions, email programs@aiisf.org.