Contents:
  • Lessons from My Mother's Past: Researching Chinese Women's Immigration History
  • Chin Lung's Affidavit, May 14, 1892
  • Leong Shee's Testimony, April 18, 1893
  • Leong Shee's Testimony, July 24, 1929
  • Jew Law Ying's Coaching Book
  • Jew Law Ying's and Yung Hin Sen's Testimonies, April 2-3, 1941
  • Oral History Interview with Jew Law Ying
  • Bound Feet: Chinese Women in the Nineteenth Century
  • Images of Women in Chinese Proverbs: "A Woman without Talent Is Virtuous"
  • Kwong King You, Sau Saang Gwa: "If I Could Just See Him One More Time"
  • A Stain on the Flag / 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 / Helen Grey
  • The Chinese Woman in America / Sui Seen [Sin] Far
  • Worse Than Slaves: Servitude of All Chinese Wives / Louise A. Littleton
  • Mary Tape, an Outspoken Woman: "Is It a Disgrace to Be Born a Chinese?"
  • Unbound Feet: Chinese Immigrant Women, 1902-1929
  • Sieh King King, China's Joan of Arc: "Men and Women Are Equal and Should Enjoy the Privileges of Equals"
  • Madame Mai's Speech: "How Can It Be That They Look upon Us as Animals?"
  • No More Footbinding (Anonymous)
  • Wong Ah So, Filial Daughter and Prostitute: "The Greatest Virtue in Life Is Reverence to Parents"
  • Law Shee Low, Model Wife and Mother: "We Were All Good Women--Stayed Home and Sewed"
  • Jane Kwong Lee, Community Worker: "Devoting My Best to What Needed to Be Done"
  • The Purpose of the Chinese Women's Jeleab Association / Liu Yilan.