East of Home

Santha Rama Rau
Harper & Brothers, 1950
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Jeanyee Wong, 1920–2017

July 22, 1920, San Francisco, California – February 21, 2017, New York, New York

Marriage certificate of Jeanyee’s parents,
Choy Wong and Young Chiu
June 20, 1919, Canton, China

Certificate from her father’s Chinese Exclusion Act
file at the National Archives, San Bruno, California

1930 U.S. Census, Jeanyee is on line 72.

1938 Cable, Cooper Union, Freshman

Jean-Yee Wong, treasurer

1939 Cable, Cooper Union, Sophomore

1940 Cable, Cooper Union, Junior

1940 U.S. Census, Jeanyee is on line 36.

1941 Cable, Cooper Union, Senior

On October 7, 1946, Jeanyee Wong and Waie Lew 

applied for a marriage license in Manhattan. They 

married the following day at the Municipal Building.

1950 U.S. Census, Jeanyee is on line 18.

LibraryThing

(Updated June 19, 2023; next post on Friday: East of Home)

The Goat Boy

Augusta Walker
Michael Joseph, 1954
chapter illustrations used on dust jacket, cloth cover and title page
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No Chinese Stranger

Jade Snow Wong
Harper & Row, 1975
Photograph of kite by Deng Ming-Dao
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China’s Long March

Jean Fritz
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988
Eight maps
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Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh

Irving Stone, Editor
Doubleday, 1950
Jacket design
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