Sunday, July 29, 2012

Rego: US immigrants took 'paper names' to skirt anti-Chinese exclusion laws - Contra Costa Times


Rego: US immigrants took 'paper names' to skirt anti-Chinese exclusion laws
Contra Costa Times
"His official name for immigration and all legal purposes was the 'paper name' he used to get into the country," says son Jordan Yee, of Fremont, "His paper surname on all his legal documents was Mr. Lam G. Tuck. When my dad was in his late 70s, we had ...

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