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Unsubmissive Women explores the lives of Chinese girls and women who were shipped to San Francisco in the nineteenth century and forced into prostitution. They maintained their will to alter their fate, survived subjugation, and quite often escaped to establish families in the American West.
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Unsubmissive Women : Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-century San Francisco
author
:
Tong, Benson.
publisher
:
University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0806126531
print isbn13
:
9780806126531
ebook isbn13
:
9780585146195
language
:
English
subject
Prostitutes--California--San Francisco--History--19th century, Chinese--California--San Francisco--History--19th century.
publication date
:
1994
lcc
:
HQ146.S4T66 1994eb
ddc
:
306.74/2/0979461
subject
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Prostitutes--California--San Francisco--History--19th century, Chinese--California--San Francisco--History--19th century.
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Unsubmissive Women
Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
by Benson Tong
University of Oklahoma Press : Norman and London
Page iv
For those who made this possible: my parents, Ai Ling and Yin Fah, John and Irving, and Gerald Thompson
Published with the assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency which supports the study of such fields as history, philosophy, literature, and language.
Tong, Benson, 1964 Unsubmissive women: Chinese prostitutes in nineteenth-century San Francisco / by Benson Tong. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8061-2653-1 (alk. paper) 1. Prostitutes California San Francisco History 19th century. 2. Chinese California San Francisco History 19th century. I. Title. HQ146.S4T66 1994 306.74'2'0979461 dc2094-16168 CIP
Text design by Cathy Carney Imboden.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Copyright 1994 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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Contents
List of Illustrations
vii
List of Tables
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction
xv
One: Chinese Prostitutes in the West, 18491882
3
Two: Unwilling Travelers to Gum Saan
34
Three: Arrival in America
56
Page vi
Four: Adjusting to Life in Chinatown
93
Five: Violence and Public Women
126
Six: Leaving the Trade
159
Conclusion
192
Appendix: Bills of Sale of Chinese Prostitutes
199
Notes
205
Bibliography
257
Index
293
Page vii
Illustrations
Figures
U.S. Customs officers searching Chinese immigrants
79
A "one hundred men's wife" dressed in traditional clothing
80
Officials of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of San Francisco
81
Bartlett Alley, infamous for brothels and opium dens
82
A Chinese prostitute outside her domicile
83
Page viii
Young woman brought to the United States to work as a domestic servant, or mooi-tsai
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