Yung, Judy.

Unbound voices : a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco / Judy Yung. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1999. - 1 online resource (xv, 543 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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?" -- 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 / M.G.C. Edholm -- Helen Grey -- Sui Seen [Sin] Far -- Louise A. Littleton -- Liu Yilan.

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Chinese American women--History--California--San Francisco--Sources.
Chinese American women--Social conditions--California--San Francisco--Sources.
Women immigrants--History--California--San Francisco--Sources.
Chinese American women--California--San Francisco--Biography.
HISTORY--State & Local--General.
Chinese American women.
Chinese American women--Social conditions.
Ethnic relations.
Social conditions
Women immigrants.
Chinezen.
Vrouwen.
United States Local History.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.


San Francisco (Calif.)--Social conditions--Sources.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Ethnic relations--Sources.
California--San Francisco.


Electronic books.
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Biographies.
History.
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F869.S39 / C597 1999eb

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