During the height of racist anti-Chinese U.S. immigration laws; illegal aliens were able to come into the States under false papers identifying them as the sons of those who had returned to China to marry and have children. American Paper Son is the story of one such Chinese immigrant who came to Wichita; Kansas; in 1935 as a thirteen-year-old paper son to help in his father's restaurant there. This vivid first-person account addresses significant themes in Asian American history through the lens of Wong's personal stories. Wong served in one of the all-Chinese units of the 14th Air Force in China during World War II and he discusses the impact of race and segregation on his experience.
#1147869 in Books 1990-11-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x 1.00 x 6.00l; 1.02 #File Name: 0252061470304 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. OutstandingBy R. MillerAn outstanding feat of scholarship. I am preparing a book about a family's escape from Germany; and have read far and wide to understand what Jewish families were experiencing in the 1930's – up to Kristallnacht. This is by far the best; most thorough; most reasonable approach I have read.0 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Annother Classic; must have readBy John B. Keenan Jr.I am still tripping about the selection of unbelieveable titles I'm able to get at unbelieveably reasonable prices...Hope I live long enough to read all my steals; thanks.5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. The reality of AuschwitzBy Vanessa W.There is nothing which has so defined the world for the last several decades and which will continue to define the world for many decades to come as the concentration camp and the gas chamber. It is the knowledge that man is capable of the systematic and brutal extermination of his fellow man that has shaped the modern world. As Schleunes very poignantly phrases it in the introduction to this book; "if we are to begin to understand ourselves we must somehow come to grips with the reality of Auschwitz." In his book The Twisted Road to Auschwitz; Schleunes offers us an opportunity to make sense of the senseless and to begin the process of coming to grips with this reality.Before reading Schleunes's book I had a very different picture of "the twisted road to Auschwitz" in mind. It is tempting to want to see the perpetrators of such crimes as superhumanly evil; even as monsters. Schleunes; however; reminds of the reality; that those who created the concentration camps and gas chambers were as human as the rest of us; and that; as humans so often do; they largely bumbled their way into genocide.Schleunes paints a picture of a perfect storm; a collusion of people; events; and ideas brought together by chance. Here are radical Antisemites of the lower-middle class whose hatred for Jews derives from a combination of culture heritage and envy. Here is a science only vaguely understood and manipulated for propaganda purposes. Here is a continually growing population of Jews. And here is the "Final Solution."Schleunes's book is a masterful account of "the twisted road to Auschwitz" which hits every bump and dip along the way. This is an important read for all people. It is only through understanding how we ended up there in the first place that we can fulfill the motto oft-repeated sense the Holocaust: "never again."
