This is the site of Author William Wong’s family’s restaurant, the Great China, from 1943 to 1961. It is where he and his older sisters and parents spent countless hours six or seven days a week, becoming part of Oakland and America. This site has been a restaurant for generations following the Great China.

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William Wong was born and grew up in Oakland’s Chinatown. He went on to a distinguished journalism career (The Wall Street Journal, Oakland Tribune, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer). He is the author of Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America (Temple University Press, 2001) and Images of America: Oakland’s Chinatown (Arcadia Publishing Co., 2004).

Visit his web sites, http://www.yellowjournalist.com and http://www.oaklandchinatownhistory.org.