AIISF Author Spotlight: William Gee Wong

The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF) will be hosting an online event with William Gee Wong. He will discuss his work on the book Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America and take questions from the audience.

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 and Asian Week, among other publications.

Learn more about William Gee Wong:  https://oaklandside.org/2024/03/20/william-gee-wong-memoir-sons-of-chinatown-oakland/

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