Benson WONG
1928 from Toisan, China
Benson Wong arrived as a twelve-year-old paper son, and was immediately quarantined for thirty days on Angel Island. “The first thing they do is the physical examination. And they found out I had sai dei, little sores all over the body [scabies].” Benson would later be drafted into the US Army in World War II and opened a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco.
(Portrait by Kathryn Chin, SFSU 2017)
WONG Benson (Chin) Color.pdf479.51 KB
WONG Benson (Chin) BW.pdf162.9 KB