Paul Polansky

The Search for Bong Way Wong Paul Polansky

Researching the life of Bong Way Wong, a Chinese-American who gave up a promising engineering career in California in 1960 to supposedly become the first ever Chinese bullfighter, revealed there were many Chinese bullfighters in Mexico decades before him, including two Chinese women bullfighters. This book is not just about bullfighting but also about Chinese immigrants in Mexico trying to participate in a society that often refused to accept them, and even massacred many before deporting the majority of them in the 1920s/30s.