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...
Tag: Outtakes from China’s Wings
Stories that didn’t quite make it into the book China’s Wings, by Gregory Crouch, which celebrates the life and times of the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC)
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...
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...