Unbound Voices

An invaluable and finely-crafted collection of oral histories, narratives, interviews, essays, photographs, and memoirs, documenting more than half a century of Chinese immigrant women's lives in the San Francisco area.

Judy Yung is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

List of Illustrations

xi

Terminology and Transliterations

xiii

Introduction

1

(8)

PART ONE. Lessons from My Mother's Past: Researching Chinese Women's Immigration History

9

(90)

Chin Lung's Affidavit, May 14, 1892

17

(3)

Leong Shee's Testimony, April 18, 1893

20

(3)

Leong Shee's Testimony, July 24, 1929

23

(9)

Jew Law Ying's Coaching Book

32

(25)

Jew Law Ying's and Yung Hin Sen's Testimonies, April 2--3, 1941

57

(30)

Oral History Interview with Jew Law Ying

87

(12)

PART TWO. Bound Feet: Chinese Women in the Nineteenth Century

99

(78)

Images of Women in Chinese Proverbs: ``A Woman without Talent Is Virtuous''

103

(10)

Sau Saang Gwa: ``If I Could Just See Him One More Time''

113

(11)

Kwong King You

A Stain on the Flag

124

(20)

M. G. C. Edholm

Confession of a Chinese Slave-Dealer: How She Bought Her Girls, Smuggled Them into San Francisco, and Why She Has Just Freed Them

144

(10)

Helen Grey

The Chinese Woman in America

154

(10)

Sui Seen [Sin] Far

Worse Than Slaves: Servitude of All Chinese Wives

164

(7)

Louise A. Littleton

an Outspoken Woman: ``Is It a Disgrace to Be Born a Chinese?''

171

(6)

Mary Tape

PART THREE. Unbound Feet: Chinese Immigrant Women, 1902--1929

177

(70)

China's Joan of Arc: ``Men and Women Are Equal and Should Enjoy the Privileges of Equals''

181

(7)

Sieh King King

Madame Mai's Speech: ``How Can It Be That They Look upon Us as Animals?'

188

(6)

No More Footbinding (Anonymous)

194

(7)

Filial Daughter and Prostitute: ``The Greatest Virtue in Life Is Reverence to Parents''

201

(10)

Wong Ah So

Model Wife and Mother: ``We Were All Good Women---Stayed Home and Sewed''

211

(13)

Law Shee Low

Community Worker: ``Devoting My Best to What Needed to Be Done''

224

(18)

Jane Kwong Lee

The Purpose of the Chinese Women's Jeleab Association

242

(5)

Liu Yilan

PART FOUR. First Steps: The Second Generation, 1920s

247

(82)

The Oriental Girl in the Occident, by One of the ``Second Generation''

251

(5)

Manifestations of Modern Influences on Second Generation Chinese

256

(8)

Miss Rose Chew

World Traveler: ``A Rebel at Heart''

264

(9)

Alice Sun Fun

Cabaret Dancer: ``I've Lived a Full Life''

273

(8)

Rose Yuen Ow

Tiny

281

(8)

Tye Leung Schulze

Some Rambling Thoughts on Why I Am a Christian

289

(8)

Florence Chinn Kwan

Story of a Chinese College Girl (The Conflict between the Old and the Young)

297

(10)

Esther Wong

Flapper and Writer: ``I Long for Unconventionality and Freedom''

307

(12)

Flora Belle Jan

Cocktail Waitress: ``That's What Happens When You're Illiterate''

319

(10)

Gladys Ng Gin

PART FIVE. Long Strides: The Great Depression, 1930s

329

(80)

Social Worker: ``Careful Social Planning Needed''

333

(14)

Ethel Lum

Community Worker: ``A Richer Life for All''

347

(9)

Jane Kwong Lee

Hardworking Wife and Mother: ``The 1930s Were the Hardest''

356

(9)

Wong See Chan

Fighter for the Underdog: ``You Have to Stand Up for Your Rights: Nobody Will Give You Anything for Nothing''

365

(10)

Eva Lowe

Schoolteacher and Community Organizer: ``I Wanted to Help People, Not Run Their Lives''

375

(12)

Alice Fong Yu

Sue Ko Lee and the 1938 National Dollar Strike: ``It Changed Our Lives''

387

(22)

PART SIX. In Step: The War Years, 1931--1945

409

(102)

Women's Role in the War of Resistance: ``Everyone, Man and Woman, Has a Responsibility in the Rise and Fall of a Nation''

413

(10)

Lady P'ing Yu on War: ``Women, Show Your Stuff''

423

(9)

Community Worker: ``To Save Our Motherland and Promote Our Status as Women''

432

(20)

Jane Kwong Lee

Dr. Margaret Chung and the Fair-Haired Bastards Club: ``Necessity Is the Mother of Invention''

452

(13)

Chinese in the United States Today: The War Has Changed Their Lives

465

(8)

Rose Hum Lee

Marinship Chinese Workers Are Building Ships to Free Their Home Land

473

(6)

Constance Wong [Jade Snow Wong]

Shipyard Worker: ``I Was a Tacker on the Graveyard Shift''

479

(7)

May Lew Gee

U.S. Air Corps Corporal: ``I Would Love to Be Buried at Arlington''

486

(10)

Ruth Chan Jang

Mother and Daughter: ``Making Marks for Heaven''

496

(15)

Lai Yee Guey

Lorena How

Appendix. Giving Voice to Chinese American Women: Oral History Methodology

511

(16)

Chinese Glossary

527

(12)

Index

539

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