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Wong Chin Foo (Pinyin: Wang Qingfu[1]) was a Chinese-born journalist, lecturer, and writer, one of the most prolific Chinese writers in the San Francisco press of the 19th century. He first came to the United States in 1868; he returned to China but was forced out for his political activism; he then moved to Japan and (in 1873) back to the U.S.[2][3]

In the U.S., he lived mostly in the East and Midwest, traveling and lecturing. He founded a weekly newspaper, The Chinese American, in New York City in 1883, the country's first association of Chinese American voters in 1884, and the Chinese Equal Rights League to campaign against the U.S. policy of Chinese Exclusion in 1892. His work was published in periodicals including the North American Review and Chautauquan.[2] When a visitor to a saloon in New York's Chinatown accused a Chinese grocery of handling small cats and rats, Wong offered $500 reward for anyone who could prove that Chinese ate cats or rats, an offer which was not taken up. [4] The incident provoked Wong into writing an article on Chinese food for the Brooklyn Eagle which offers a rich description of Chinese cooking, in which he says “chop soly,” that is, Chop Suey “may justly be called the national dish of China” (though it is not the dish usually called Chop Suey in the United States). [5]


His 1887 essay "Why Am I a Heathen?" explains his rejection of Christianity in favor of traditional Chinese beliefs;[6] it prompted a response that same year, "Why I Am Not a Heathen" by his fellow Chinese immigrant Yan Phou Lee, a Christian.[7]

Wong went up repeatedly against anti-Chinese activist Denis Kearney, heckling him and at one point challenging him to a duel, and giving Kearney his choice of weapon: chopsticks, Irish potatoes, or Krupp guns.[8] In 1904, he approved of Sun Yat-Sen's revolutionary message.[9] He subsequently disappeared from recorded history. His date and place of death are unknown.[10]