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Unbound voices : a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco / Judy Yung.
LIBRA F869.S39 C597 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yung, Judy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese American women--California--San Francisco--History--Sources.
- Chinese American women.
- Chinese American women--California--San Francisco--Social conditions--Sources.
- Women immigrants--California--San Francisco--History--Sources.
- Women immigrants.
- Chinese American women--California--San Francisco--Biography.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Social conditions--Sources.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Ethnic relations--Sources.
- California--San Francisco.
- Chinese American women--California--San Francisco--History.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Local Subjects:
- Chinese American women--California--San Francisco--History.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 543 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents -- letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories -- detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide an engaging composite of Chinese women's experiences in their own words, as they tell of making a home for themselves and their families in San Francisco from the gold rush years through World War II.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Lessons from My Mother's Past: Researching Chinese Women's Immigration History 9
- Chin Lung's Affidavit, May 14, 1892 17
- Leong Shee's Testimony, April 18, 1893 20
- Leong Shee's Testimony, July 24, 1929 23
- Jew Law Ying's Coaching Book 32
- Jew Law Ying's and Yung Hin Sen's Testimonies, April 2-3, 1941 57
- Oral History Interview with Jew Law Ying 87
- Part 2. Bound Feet: Chinese Women in the Nineteenth Century 99
- Images of Women in Chinese Proverbs: "A Woman without Talent Is Virtuous" 103
- Kwong King You, Sau Saang Gwa: "If I Could Just See Him One More Time" 113
- A Stain on the Flag / M. G. C. Edholm 124
- Confession of a Chinese Slave-Dealer: How She Bought Her Girls, Smuggled Them into San Francisco, and Why She Has Just Freed Them / Helen Grey 144
- The Chinese Woman in America / Sui Seen [Sin] Far 154
- Worse Than Slaves: Servitude of All Chinese Wives / Louise A. Littleton 164
- Mary Tape, an Outspoken Woman: "Is It a Disgrace to Be Born a Chinese?" 171
- Part 3. Unbound Feet: Chinese Immigrant Women, 1902-1929 177
- Sieh King King, China's Joan of Arc: "Men and Women Are Equal and Should Enjoy the Privileges of Equals" 181
- Madame Mai's Speech: "How Can It Be That They Look upon Us as Animals?" 188
- No More Footbinding (Anonymous) 194
- Wong Ah So, Filial Daughter and Prostitute: "The Greatest Virtue in Life Is Reverence to Parents" 201
- Law Shee Low, Model Wife and Mother: "We Were All Good Women
- Stayed Home and Sewed" 211
- Jane Kwong Lee, Community Worker: "Devoting My Best to What Needed to Be Done" 224
- The Purpose of the Chinese Women's Jeleab Association / Liu Yilan 242
- Part 4. First Steps: The Second Generation, 1920s 247
- The Oriental Girl in the Occident, by One of the "Second Generation" 251
- Manifestations of Modern Influences on Second Generation Chinese / Miss Rose Chew 256
- Alice Sue Fun, World Traveler: "A Rebel at Heart" 264
- Rose Yuen Ow, Cabaret Dancer: "I've Lived a Full Life" 273
- Tiny / Tye Leung Schulze 281
- Some Rambling Thoughts on Why I Am a Christian / Florence Chinn Kwan 289
- Story of a Chinese College Girl (The Conflict between the Old and the Young) / Esther Wong 297
- Flora Belle Jan, Flapper and Writer: "I Long for Unconventionality and Freedom" 307
- Gladys Ng Gin, Cocktail Waitress: "That's What Happens When You're Illiterate" 319
- Part 5. Long Strides: The Great Depression, 1930s 329
- Ethel Lum, Social Worker: "Careful Social Planning Needed" 333
- Jane Kwong Lee, Community Worker: "A Richer Life for All" 347
- Wong See Chan, Hardworking Wife and Mother: "The 1930s Were the Hardest" 356
- Eva Lowe, Fighter for the Underdog: "You Have to Stand Up for Your Rights: Nobody Will Give You Anything for Nothing" 365
- Alice Fong Yu, Schoolteacher and Community Organizer: "I Wanted to Help People, Not Run Their Lives" 375
- Sue Ko Lee and the 1938 National Dollar Stores Strike: "It Changed Our Lives" 387
- Part 6. In Step: The War Years, 1931-1945 409
- Women's Role in the War of Resistance: "Everyone, Man and Woman, Has a Responsibility in the Rise and Fall of a Nation" 413
- Lady P'ing Yu on War: "Women, Show Your Stuff" 423
- Jane Kwong Lee, Community Worker: "To Save Our Motherland and Promote Our Status as Women" 432
- Dr. Margaret Chung and the Fair-Haired Bastards Club: "Necessity Is the Mother of Invention" 452
- Chinese in the United States Today: The War Has Changed Their Lives / Rose Hum Lee 465
- Marinship Chinese Workers Are Building Ships to Free Their Home Land / Constance Wong [Jade Snow Wong] 473
- May Lew Gee, Shipyard Worker: "I Was a Tacker on the Graveyard Shift" 479
- Ruth Chan Jang, U.S. Air Corps Corporal: "I Would Love to Be Buried at Arlington" 486
- Lai Yee Guey and Lorena How, Mother and Daughter: "Making Marks for Heaven" 496
- Appendix Giving Voice to Chinese American Women: Oral History Methodology 511.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520208706
- 0520218604
- OCLC:
- 41320204
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