William Gee Wong will be in conversation with award-winning documentary filmmaker Felicia Lowe about Chinese immigration during the Chinese exclusion era through the Angel Island Immigration Station and subsequent integration of the second-generation in an illegal immigration success story set among contradictory American historical, political and cultural circumstances.
A native of Oakland, California's Chinatown, William Gee Wong is the author of Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Oakland Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco News Call Bulletin, the San Francisco Examiner, East West: The Chinese American Journal, and Asian Week, among other publications. He is also the author of Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America, Images of America: Oakland's Chinatown, and co-author of Images of America: Angel Island.
LOCATION:Main Library - Chinese Center Exhibit Space - 3rd Fl CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT1440M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Event Reminder - Author: William Gee Wong in Conversation END:VALARM END:VCALENDAR