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Article: UNBOUND VOICES: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF CHINESE WOMEN IN SAN FRANCISCO.(Review)
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- The Oral History Review
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- June 22, 2000
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UNBOUND VOICES: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF CHINESE WOMEN IN SAN FRANCISCO. By Judy Yung. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 558 pp. Hardbound, $55.00; Softbound, $19.95.
New books by Judy Yung and Huping Ling serve to highlight the continuing development of Asian-American scholarship. Both provide excellent examples of the importance of "recentering" women through their departure from what has traditionally been the "masculinist" perspective on early Asian-American history.(1) The historical focus on men is understandable given the reality that the vast majority of Asian newcomers to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ...