Moon Chin finally gets to meet his father — at age 10
In Wing-Wa Village, Moon Chin grew up with his mother, sister, and brother behind the dingy, sun-seared, windowless exterior walls of a single-story, mud-brick ...
Author: Gregory
How the SF earthquake made Moon Chin a citizen, Part III
Continued from yesterday, part 3 of 3… At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, the San Andreas Fault ruptured off the coast southwest of San Francisco, triggering...
How the SF earthquake made Moon Chin a citizen, Part II
Continued from yesterday. Predictably, the Chinese suffered a backlash. Working-class whites felt that disciplined Chinese toil forced them to work harder for l...
How the SF earthquake made Moon Chin a citizen, Part I
Moon Chin was born on April 13, 1914 in Wing-Wa Village, a tiny hamlet in the undulating coastal lowlands of Kwangtung Province about 60 miles up the Pearl Rive...
Moon Chin joins CNAC
A windsock hung limp from a pole that sprouted from the roof of the largest commercial hangar in China; it might have been the largest in Asia, capable of holdi...
Three great pilots
CNAC’s first three Chinese-American pilots: Joy Thom of Los Angeles, Moon Chin of Wing-Wa Village and Baltimore, Donald Wong of Chicago. All three were bo...
All roads led to Moon Chin
I’ve been focusing on whipping the China’s Wings manuscript into shape with Tracy Devine, my editor at Bantam Dell, and I’m thrilled with the ...
Lunghwa Pagoda, a thousand-year old landmark for CNAC pilots
1930s photo of the famous landmark
The Chungking Airport, probably in 1938
Chungking’s Sanhupa Airport, probably in 1938, which had the feel of a frontier colony. Because it was built on a Yangtze sandbar, all the buildings on th...