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Description: Wongs of Beloit, Wisconsin, Paperback by Mckenzie, Beatrice, ISBN 0299335941, ISBN-13 9780299335946, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Through family interviews, original photographs, and national records, Beatrice Loftus McKenzie traces the many lives of a resilient multigenerational family whose experiences parallel the complicated relationship between America and China in the twentieth century. In the early 1900s, Charles Wong moved from Guangdong Province to the United States and opened the Nan King Lo Restaurant in Beloit, Wisconsin. Soon after, his wife Yee Shee joined him to build the "Chop House" into a local institution and start a family. When the Great Depression hit, the Wongs shared what they had with their neighbors. In 1938, Charles's tragic murder left Yee Shee to raise their seven children—ages one through fourteen—on her own. Rather than return to family property in Hong Kong, she and her children stayed in Beloit, buoyed by the friendships they had forged during the worst parts of the 1930s.  The Wongs thrived in Beloit despite facing racism and classism, embracing wartime opportunities, education, love, and careers within the U. S. McKenzie's collaboration with descendent Mary Wong Palmer reveals a poignant story of Chinese immigrant life in the Upper Midwest that adds a much-needed Wisconsin perspective to existing literature by and about Asian Americans.

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Book Title: Wongs of Beloit, Wisconsin

Number of Pages: 184 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Publication Year: 2022

Item Height: 0.6 in

Topic: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: History

Author: Beatrice Mckenzie

Item Length: 8.5 in

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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