Chan Teung Yee

YEE Chan Teung

 

Chan Teung YEE

1928 from Guangzhou, China

After spending six months on Angel Island, Chan Teung was permitted to enter San Francisco where he worked in a laundry before opening his own. In 1937, he returned to China to marry and with the birth of his son in 1938, returned to America. The family was separated during World War II and not reunited in the United States until 1952. 

(Portrait by Katie Quan, SFSU 2016)