Boston, August 22, 2016, — Dragon’s Teeth, Arthur Wong’s Journey from Taishan to Normandy was recently released by Boston Bilngual Media and Publishing Inc. Authors of the book David Li and Changhong Zhang are invited to give a talk on this book in at 7:00 PM on August 23, 2016 at Sing Tao Daily’s Boston office (130 Lincoln St., Boston, MA 021111). They will share their experiences of writing this bio over the past two years.
Dragon’s Teeth is a biography of WWII veteran Arthur Wong, a 92-year-old resident of Boston Chinatown. Author David Li interviewed Mr. Wong for over 50 times while writing this book. The other author of the book is Changhong Zhang, a graduate student at Emerson College. Rich Wong, son of Arthur, wrote foreword for this book.
State Rep. Tackey Chan presents Mr. Arthur Wong a citation from MA House of Repsentatives at the book preview party in June 2016.
Contributors to Dragons Teeth
Authors: David Li and Changhong Zhang
Editors: Wei Wong, Virginia Taylor, Rich Wong, Stephanie Fan
Cover design: Eric Wu & Connie Chan
Dragon’s Teeth – Foreword
By Rich Wong
I grew up in the 1960’s in the Boston area and throughout my childhood I would see mail from the American Legion and Veterans Administration for my father. I never thought much about it and my father never really said anything about this either. It is only now in the waning years of my father’s life that he has opened up about his life and specifically his service to the country.
After learning about these details, I now understand why his story needs to be told.
There are very few Chinese-Americans that fought for the U.S. army on the front line for over a hundred days. In this book, he relives his stories of landing in Normandy and being ordered to jump over a stone wall straight into enemy territory as a scout, of how he led his platoon to overtake a heavily fortified pill-box and of when he performed reconnaissance while being one of the first to cross the Siegfried line into Germany to report back that he saw anti-tank barricades which he described to his superiors as “dragon’s teeth”.
These riveting stories were held within my father’s now frail body for over 60 years and are only now told in his biography “Dragon’s Teeth”.
How to buy the book
Arthur landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day 1944 as a US Army soldier, and was seriously injured during invasion into Germany in Nov. 1944. He received Purple Heart, Bronze Star and other medals 65 years after he returned from Europe. You can get free shipping within the US on this must-read in Chinese American history.