Ceiling 500 feet, intermittent drizzle
In 2004, I approached Moon Chin with great trepidation. My experiences at the CNAC reunion made it obvious that he had incredible standing and “face” among the ...
Category: China’s Wings
Posts related to my book, CHINA’S WINGS
Moon Chin photo, 1941
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Moon Chin Learns to Fly
Moon Chin finished the mechanics course and thought he might be able to catch on as an airline mechanic. He cast around for openings, but the recession was slip...
Lindbergh’s crossing captivates Moon Chin
A month after Moon Chin’s thirteenth birthday, on May 21 and 22, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic, a feat that catapulted Lindbergh to the ...
The Economic Opportunities in a place called Baltimore
Moon Chin crossed North America in a train, sitting upright on a wooden bench with his face glued to the window, full of wonder at the sights of the new land. A...
Moon Chin languishes in an INS gulag
Joe Chin wasn’t alone in having his citizenship minted in the San Francisco earthquake. Thousands of other Chinese had seized the same opportunity, and like Joe...
Moon Chin immigrates — and goes to jail
Moon Chin and his father lugged a single suitcase out of Wing-Wa village one humid morning in the summer of 1924. Sweat trickled from their short black hair and...
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 ...
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...