Unbound voices : a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco / Judy Yung.
by
 
Yung, Judy.

ISBN
9780520922877
 
9780585329802

Title
Unbound voices : a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco / Judy Yung.

Author
Yung, Judy.

Personal Author
Yung, Judy.

Publication Information
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.

Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 543 pages) : illustrations

Contents
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

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Subject Term
Chinese American women -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- Sources.
 
Chinese American women -- California -- San Francisco -- Social conditions -- Sources.
 
Women immigrants -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- Sources.
 
Chinese American women -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography.

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

Format
Electronic Resources

Electronic Access
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Publication Date
1999

Publication Information
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.


Shelf NumberMaterial TypeCopyShelf LocationStatus
979.46100495100922 211:E-BOOK11:ONLINEAvailable for online access and/or download