If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration before Exclusion (Asian American Experience)
By George Peffer.
Description
"Seven years before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 comprehensively disqualified all members of China's laboring class from immigration status, the Page Law sought to stem the tide of Chinese prostitutes entering the United States. Yet during these seven years it was not just prostitutes but all Chinese females who encountered at best hostility and at worst expulsion when they reached the "Golden Door." In this first detailed account of Chinese American women's lives in the preexclusion era, George Anthony Peffer investigates how administrative agencies and federa...
ISBN(s)
0252067770, 9780252067778
