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| Introduction |
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| PART ONE. Lessons from My Mother's Past: Researching Chinese Women's Immigration History |
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Chin Lung's Affidavit, May 14, 1892 |
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Leong Shee's Testimony, April 18, 1893 |
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Leong Shee's Testimony, July 24, 1929 |
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Jew Law Ying's Coaching Book |
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Jew Law Ying's and Yung Hin Sen's Testimonies, April 2--3, 1941 |
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Oral History Interview with Jew Law Ying |
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| PART TWO. Bound Feet: Chinese Women in the Nineteenth Century |
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Images of Women in Chinese Proverbs: ``A Woman without Talent Is Virtuous'' |
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Sau Saang Gwa: ``If I Could Just See Him One More Time'' |
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Confession of a Chinese Slave-Dealer: How She Bought Her Girls, Smuggled Them into San Francisco, and Why She Has Just Freed Them |
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The Chinese Woman in America |
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Worse Than Slaves: Servitude of All Chinese Wives |
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an Outspoken Woman: ``Is It a Disgrace to Be Born a Chinese?'' |
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| PART THREE. Unbound Feet: Chinese Immigrant Women, 1902--1929 |
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China's Joan of Arc: ``Men and Women Are Equal and Should Enjoy the Privileges of Equals'' |
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Madame Mai's Speech: ``How Can It Be That They Look upon Us as Animals?' |
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No More Footbinding (Anonymous) |
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Filial Daughter and Prostitute: ``The Greatest Virtue in Life Is Reverence to Parents'' |
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201 | (10) |
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Model Wife and Mother: ``We Were All Good Women---Stayed Home and Sewed'' |
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211 | (13) |
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Community Worker: ``Devoting My Best to What Needed to Be Done'' |
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224 | (18) |
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The Purpose of the Chinese Women's Jeleab Association |
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| PART FOUR. First Steps: The Second Generation, 1920s |
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The Oriental Girl in the Occident, by One of the ``Second Generation'' |
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Manifestations of Modern Influences on Second Generation Chinese |
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256 | (8) |
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World Traveler: ``A Rebel at Heart'' |
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264 | (9) |
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Cabaret Dancer: ``I've Lived a Full Life'' |
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Some Rambling Thoughts on Why I Am a Christian |
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Story of a Chinese College Girl (The Conflict between the Old and the Young) |
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297 | (10) |
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Flapper and Writer: ``I Long for Unconventionality and Freedom'' |
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Cocktail Waitress: ``That's What Happens When You're Illiterate'' |
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| PART FIVE. Long Strides: The Great Depression, 1930s |
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Social Worker: ``Careful Social Planning Needed'' |
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Community Worker: ``A Richer Life for All'' |
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Hardworking Wife and Mother: ``The 1930s Were the Hardest'' |
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Fighter for the Underdog: ``You Have to Stand Up for Your Rights: Nobody Will Give You Anything for Nothing'' |
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Schoolteacher and Community Organizer: ``I Wanted to Help People, Not Run Their Lives'' |
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Sue Ko Lee and the 1938 National Dollar Strike: ``It Changed Our Lives'' |
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| PART SIX. In Step: The War Years, 1931--1945 |
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Women's Role in the War of Resistance: ``Everyone, Man and Woman, Has a Responsibility in the Rise and Fall of a Nation'' |
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Lady P'ing Yu on War: ``Women, Show Your Stuff'' |
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Community Worker: ``To Save Our Motherland and Promote Our Status as Women'' |
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Dr. Margaret Chung and the Fair-Haired Bastards Club: ``Necessity Is the Mother of Invention'' |
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Chinese in the United States Today: The War Has Changed Their Lives |
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465 | (8) |
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Marinship Chinese Workers Are Building Ships to Free Their Home Land |
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Constance Wong [Jade Snow Wong] |
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Shipyard Worker: ``I Was a Tacker on the Graveyard Shift'' |
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U.S. Air Corps Corporal: ``I Would Love to Be Buried at Arlington'' |
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Mother and Daughter: ``Making Marks for Heaven'' |
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| Appendix. Giving Voice to Chinese American Women: Oral History Methodology |
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| Chinese Glossary |
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| Index |
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