Unbound voices : a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco /
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| Author / Creator: | Yung, Judy. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999. |
| Description: | xv, 543 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4077862 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Terminology and Transliterations
- Introduction
- Part 1.. Lessons from My Mother's Past: Researching Chinese Women's Immigration History
- Chin Lung's Affidavit, May 14, 1892
- Leong Shee's Testimony, April 18, 1893
- Leong Shee's Testimony, July 24, 1929
- Jew Law Ying's Coaching Book
- Jew Law Ying's and Yung Hin Sen's Testimonies, April 2-3, 1941
- Oral History Interview with Jew Law Ying
- Part 2.. Bound Feet: Chinese Women in the Nineteenth Century
- Images of Women in Chinese Proverbs: "A Woman without Talent Is Virtuous"
- Kwong King You, Sau Saang Gwa: "If I Could Just See Him One More Time"
- A Stain on the Flag
- Confession of a Chinese Slave-Dealer: How She Bought Her Girls, Smuggled Them into San Francisco, and Why She Has Just Freed Them
- The Chinese Woman in America
- Worse Than Slaves: Servitude of All Chinese Wives
- Mary Tape, an Outspoken Woman: "Is It a Disgrace to Be Born a Chinese?"
- Part 3.. Unbound Feet: Chinese Immigrant Women, 1902-1929
- Sieh King King, China's Joan of Arc: "Men and Women Are Equal and Should Enjoy the Privileges of Equals"
- Madame Mai's Speech: "How Can It Be That They Look upon Us as Animals?"
- No More Footbinding (Anonymous)
- Wong Ah So, Filial Daughter and Prostitute: "The Greatest Virtue in Life Is Reverence to Parents"
- Law Shee Low, Model Wife and Mother: "We Were All Good Women--Stayed Home and Sewed"
- Jane Kwong Lee, Community Worker: "Devoting My Best to What Needed to Be Done"
- The Purpose of the Chinese Women's Jeleab Association
- Part 4.. First Steps: The Second Generation, 1920s
- The Oriental Girl in the Occident, by One of the "Second Generation"
- Manifestations of Modern Influences on Second Generation Chinese
- Alice Sue Fun, World Traveler: "A Rebel at Heart"
- Rose Yuen Ow, Cabaret Dancer: "I've Lived a Full Life"
- Tiny
- Some Rambling Thoughts on Why I Am a Christian
- Story of a Chinese College Girl (The Conflict between the Old and the Young)
- Flora Belle Jan, Flapper and Writer: "I Long for Unconventionality and Freedom"
- Gladys Ng Gin, Cocktail Waitress: "That's What Happens When You're Illiterate"
- Part 5.. Long Strides: The Great Depression, 1930s
- Ethel Lum, Social Worker: "Careful Social Planning Needed"
- Jane Kwong Lee, Community Worker: "A Richer Life for All"
- Wong See Chan, Hardworking Wife and Mother: "The 1930s Were the Hardest"
- Eva Lowe, Fighter for the Underdog: "You Have to Stand Up for Your Rights: Nobody Will Give You Anything for Nothing"
- Alice Fong Yu, Schoolteacher and Community Organizer: "I Wanted to Help People, Not Run Their Lives"
- Sue Ko Lee and the 1938 National Dollar Stores Strike: "It Changed Our Lives"
- Part 6.. In Step: The War Years, 1931-1945
- Women's Role in the War of Resistance: "Everyone, Man and Woman, Has a Responsibility in the Rise and Fall of a Nation"
- Lady P'ing Yu on War: "Women, Show Your Stuff"
- Jane Kwong Lee, Community Worker: "To Save Our Motherland and Promote Our Status as Women"
- Dr. Margaret Chung and the Fair-Haired Bastards Club: "Necessity Is the Mother of Invention"
- Chinese in the United States Today: The War Has Changed Their Lives
- Marinship Chinese Workers Are Building Ships to Free Their Home Land
- May Lew Gee, Shipyard Worker: "I Was a Tacker on the Graveyard Shift"
- Ruth Chan Jang, U.S. Air Corps Corporal: "I Would Love to Be Buried at Arlington"
- Lai Yee Guey and Lorena How, Mother and Daughter: "Making Marks for Heaven"
- Appendix. Giving Voice to Chinese American Women: Oral History Methodology
- Chinese Glossary
- Index