Ep. 348 | Paper Sons and the Chinese Confessions Program

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This is surprisingly not very well-known and certainly wasn't taught in my US history classes. Here's a story for you that many might find hard to believe. Perhaps you're already familiar with the history of America's Chinese Paper Sons. Less known is the story of the 1957 Chinese Confessions Program. In this episode, we'll look back on the early to mid-20th century. First I'll present a general overview of San Francisco's Paper Sons and some of the history and culture that surrounded it. Then we can take another romp through Red Scare America in the 1950s and the 1957 Chinese Confessions Program. This one, I'm sure most of you never read about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Hi everyone, a warm welcome to you all
0:33.2	Laus la Montgomery here with another exciting episode of the China History
0:37.2	podcast as advertised last time and hundreds of times before that you can be sure
0:43.0	maybe it's because of the and hundreds of times before that, you can be sure.
0:46.6	Maybe it's because of the people I mostly hang out with, or because I'm so familiar with the subject,
0:49.0	but I thought the term Paper Son
0:51.9	was generally understood out there in our American discourse at least.
0:56.3	I didn't expect the history to be general knowledge or anything, but I thought most
1:00.4	informed people had at least heard this term before.
1:04.3	So when I was having a conversation with someone over dinner not too long ago,
1:08.8	I was inwardly quite surprised that this person had never heard that term paper son. They weren't Chinese
1:15.2	American or even Asian, but still, well they were someone quite educated and well travelled
1:21.4	and had been to China. but they had gone more than 45 years in this country without ever
1:27.1	having heard that term.
1:29.4	So I made a mental note to up the priority on this topic and that's why it's being featured today.
1:35.0	I'm going to mainly talk about Paper Sons and the Chinese Confession Program.
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