Sons of Chinatown Quotes

“problems—evading income-tax convictions, allegedly violating the Trading with the Enemy Act, and fleeing the country for Hong Kong.17 However, in California Chinatowns and in Hoisan County, Guangdong Province, China, where he was born (Pop’s birthplace, too), his philanthropy and business acumen made him a hero.”
― William Wong, Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America

“One Oakland Chinese gambling boss made headlines in the local newspaper in the 1950s. He was Chin Bok Hing, also known as Chan Bock Hing, who owned a lot of property in the Bay Area and elsewhere through his gambling fortune.”
― William Wong, Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America

“They took rickshaws to the pier, where they boarded the President Hoover.”
― William Wong, Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America

“U.S. laws at that time forbade Chinese men living in America from bringing in their China-born wives.”
― William Wong, Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America