{"id":6125,"date":"2000-10-01T10:43:22","date_gmt":"2000-10-01T14:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=6125"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:39:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:39:04","slug":"paper-son-one-mans-story-by-tung-pok-chin-with-winifred-chin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/paper-son-one-mans-story-by-tung-pok-chin-with-winifred-chin\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Son: One Man&#8217;s Story by Tung Pok Chin with Winifred Chin [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2000\/10\/Paper-Son.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-32698\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2000\/10\/Paper-Son.jpg\" alt=\"Paper Son\" width=\"450\" height=\"687\" \/><\/a>A rare first-person account of an immigrant&#8217;s journey to America during the period of Chinese Exclusion. The memoir, written with his daughter, covers over a half century of Chin&#8217;s life from his entry into his adopted country with false papers in 1934 at age 19 through the fear-filled challenges he faced as a Chinese American during the McCarthy era, to his accomplishments as a self-taught poet, the family he raised, and the community he struggled to form around him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Brief,&#8221;\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">a<\/span><\/strong><em>Magazine: Inside Asian America<\/em>, October\/November 2000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4502\" title=\"Paper Son\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/paper-son.jpg\" alt=\"Paper Son\" width=\"126\" height=\"193\" \/>A rare first-person account of an immigrant&#8217;s journey to America during the period of Chinese Exclusion. 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