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San Francisco Man Once Detained by Chinese Exclusion Act Dies at 102 (The San Francisco Standard)

September 12, 2023

By Han Li

One of the last former detainees—and perhaps the oldest—at the Angel Island Immigration Station, where many Chinese immigrants were held and interrogated under the Chinese Exclusion Act, has died in San Francisco at the age of 102.

James Chow was born on May 12, 1921, in a long-vanished Chinatown near what is now Downtown San Jose. When he was 6 months old, his parents took him back to China to give him a “Chinese upbringing in a safer, more supportive environment,” according to Chow’s son, Chris.

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