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Article: Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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In Unbound Feet, Judy Yung traces and examines changes and continuity in the lives of Chinese women across generations in San Francisco between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Yung correctly points out, there has been a dearth of broad, scholarly studies on Chinese American women in the United States. Much of the focus has been on Chinese prostitutes in the western United States during the nineteenth century. Women's limited presence in the historical record has been attributed to two factors: the absence of written documentation and the relatively small population of Chinese women in the United States until the mid-twentieth century. As a result, the individual ...