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149 “cattle”: Letter from J. C. Huston, American Consul in Charge at American Consulate General in Tientsin, China, to the Secretary of State, April 10, 1923. File 53620/115C, Entry 9, Box 229, Record Group 85, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
149 customary for the Chinese to eat only twice a day: Letter, Office of the Commissioner, Chinese Division in Boston, Massachusetts, to Commissioner General of Immigration, June 5, 1915. No. 2513, File 53775-139 and 139 A, Box 235, Entry 9, Stack Area 17W3, Row 2, Compartment 17, Shelf 1, Record Group 85, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
149 angry demonstrations in the dining room: Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung, Island, p. 19. In an oral history interview, Law Shee Low described the food served at Angel Island: “The bean sprouts were cooked so badly you wanted to throw up when you saw it. There was rice but it was cold ... The food was steamed to death; it smelled bad and tasted bad. The vegetables were old and the fatty beef was of poor quality. They must have thought we were pigs.” Judy Yung, Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), p. 216.
149 post a sign in Chinese: Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung, Island, p. 19.
149 troops to Angel Island: Ibid.
150 “Is your house one story or two stories”: Betty Lee Sung, p. 102.
150 “There are many cases”: “Life History and Social Document of Mr. J. S. Look,” Seattle, August 13, 1924, by C. H. Burnett.” p. 3. Major Document #182, Box 27, Survey of Race Relations, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University.
151 tiny windowless closet three feet square: Origins & Destinations, p. 82.
151 “calm down”: Ibid., p. 82.
151 “chopsticks slaying case”: Case 4139/11-29, Record Group 85, National Archives, Pacific Sierra Region, San Bruno, California.
151 Leong Bick Ha: Yen Le Espiritu, Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws and Love (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1997), p. 55.
151 “Wait till the day I become successful”: Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung, Island, p. 94.
151 “Leaving behind my writing bush”: Ibid., p. 84.
152 “Now poor Wong Fong”: Letter, Collector of Customs, Port of San Francisco, to Mr. H. A. Ling, Attorney, August 21, 1895, National Archives, Pacific Sierra Region, San Bruno, California. Given to author from the personal files of Neil Thomsen, archivist at NARA San Bruno.
152 Information on Elsie Sigel murder: Arthur Bonner, Alas! What Brought Thee Hither? The Chinese in New York 1800-1950, pp. 120-22.
153 draperies to be removed from each room, stall, and both: Providence Daily Journal, June 25, 1909, and Providence Sunday Journal, June 20, 1909, as cited in Origins & Destinations, p. 423.
153 90 percent of such raids: Letter written on behalf of United Chinese Association of Ohio and the Chinese Merchants Association of Cleveland, Ohio, to William B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor, March 30, 1916. File 53775/139, Entry 9, Box 235, Record Group 85, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
153-54 Description of arrests and imprisonment: Petition to President Wilson, stamped June 1, 1914. File 53620-115A, Box 229, Entry 9, Stack Area 17W3, Row 2, Compartment 1, Shelf 6, Record Group 85, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
154 “solitary, dark confinement”: “Report of the Special Committee in Charge of the Investigation of the Treatment of Chinese Residents and Immigrants by U.S. Immigration Officers.” By the Special Committee appointed by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Chinese-American League of Justice of Los Angeles, California, January 4, 1913. File 53620/115, Entry 9, Box 228, Record Group 85, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
154 “unfit for the transportation of cattle”: Ibid.
155 “This business had been going on for a number of years”: Letter to the Attorney General, December 16, 1917. File