Author: George Anthony Peffer

Publisher： University of Illinois Press

Publishing Year：1999

Call Number：F869.S39P375

Introduction: There exist lots of books studying on the history of Chinese Americans, but not many focusing on Chinese Female immigration, and only a few of them tell the stories using the voices of the women themselves.  In this book, George Anthony Peffer discusses Chinese American women’s lives in the pre-exclusion era(about 1875-1882) with abundant first hand and second hand materials mainly from documents, newspapers and surveys.   He investigates how federal laws and political forces influences Chinese women immigration in the United States.  Although the emphasis is on the pre-exclusion era, which is the period of female exclusion, following with the period of general exclusion of Chinese, Peffer tries to give a complete and true picture of the history of Chinese women in the U.S. .  As Sue Fawn Chung says, “Peffer successfully challenges stereotypes that have been the foundation of Chinese American studies.”