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Well, “a paper name� is when you’re chinese and you come to america and you gotta get yourself some papers that say, “oh yeah sure, i’m a american citizen, yeah--“wink wink.�--and sometimes the fake papers got a DIFFERENT last name than your ACTUAL name. and the fake name is known as your “paper name.� most people keep the fake name, even though everyone else in chinatown knows your real name. and that’s basically the chinese excusion� excludon? clusion. (starts again) the chinese “don’t let them in� act of 1882!
Yee, Lauren. The King of the Yees. p. 21. https://newplayexchange.org/plays/28162/king-yees. Accessed October 28, 2016.
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