Flag 25, Lieu Ngon Kay, 1951
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Flag 25, Lieu Ngon Kay, 1951
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Flag 25, Lieu Ngon Kay, 1951
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Flo Oy Wong. Flag 25, Lieu Ngon Kay, 1951.
24” x 36”
mixed media (rice sack, beads, sequins, stenciled text)

Lieu Ngon Kay, deceased, entered the U.S. in 1951. As a "paper son," he pretended to be 27 years old and claimed that his grandfather was his father. He was really Lieu Fook Sun, age 23. He was interrogated at a processing center near San Francisco, He stayed there for a month. 
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2000 Flo Oy Wong
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Flo Oy WOng
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”made in usa: Angel Island Shhh” by Flo Oy Wong
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