The Chinese in America - Iris Chang [225]
180 “In grade school I was fairly successful”: Interview conducted October 13, 1924, in Los Angeles, unnamed participant. Major Document #233, Box 28, Survey of Race Relations, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University.
180 “When we came to the study of China”: Ibid.
181 “Mother watched us like a hawk”: Oral history interview with Alice Sue Fun, in Judy Yung, Unbound Voices, p. 269.
181 “a lot of housework”: Ibid.
181 “When we grew up”: Grace Pung Guthrie, A School Divided: An Ethnography of Bilingual Education in a Chinese Community (Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1985), p. 63.
182 Some fifty Chinese-language elementary schools and a half dozen Chinese-language high schools: Haiming Liu, p. 19.
182 “an ordeal that I grew to hate”: Louise Leung Larson, Sweet Bamboo, p. 65.
182 “totalitarian attitude”: Interview with Rodney Chow, interview #149, Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project. Sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California.
183 “It was not that I was entirely unwilling to learn”: Pardee Lowe, Father and Glorious Descendant (Boston: Little, Brown, 1943), p. 140.
183 “I had to learn the Chinese language”: “Interview with Mrs. C. S. Machida,” by Wm. C. Smith, Los Angeles, August 13, 1924. Major Document #73, Box 25, Survey of Race Relations, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University.
183 almost all of the Chinese American children in San Francisco: Judy Yung, Unbound Feet, p. 151.
184 very first Boy Scout troop: Thomas W. Chinn, Bridging the Pacific: San Francisco Chinatown and Its People (San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, 1989), pp. 122-25.
184 “Take it all in all”: Victor Low, pp. 112-13.
185 “It is almost impossible to place a Chinese or Japanese”: Betty Lee Sung, p. 236.
185 “You Chinee boy or Jap boy?”: Pardee Lowe, Father and Glorious Descendant (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943), pp. 191-92.
186 “Everywhere I was greeted with perturbation”: Ibid., pp. 146-47.
186 “‘Sorry,’ they invariably said”: Ibid., p. 147.
186 “Recently two friends of mine”: “Life History and Social Document of Fred Wong,” p. 6. Date and place given on document, August 29, 1924, Seattle, Washington. Survey of Race Relations, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University.
187 a Los Angeles bank: Interview with Clarence Yip Yeu, interview #102, Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project.
187 “Don’t you have an accent?”: Victor Low, p. 170.
187 Information on Frank Chuck: Connie Young Yu, Profiles in Excellence: Peninsula Chinese Americans (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford Area Chinese Club, no date listed, possibly 1986), pp. 19-23.
188 Information on Chan Chung Wing; found it very difficult to defend my clients“: Lillian Lim, “Chinese American Trailblazers in the Law,” unpublished paper presented at the Sixth Chinese American Conference, July 9-11, 1999.
189 graduate from high school in numbers equal to Chinese boys: Judy Yung, Unbound Feet, pp. 126-27.
189 refused to finance her college education: Jade Snow Wong, Fifth Chinese Daughter (original publication, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1945; reprint edition, 1997), p. 109.
189 a total of four Chinese female students: Huping Ling, p. 45.
189 not until the 1920s that the San Francisco public school system began hiring female Chinese schoolteachers: Judy Yung, Unbound Feet, p. 129.
190 Chinatown Telephone Exchange: Ibid., p. 139.
191 Alice Fong Yu: Ibid., p. 129; Thomas W. Chinn, Bridging the Pacific, pp. 236-38.
191 Information on Martha, Mickey, and Marian Fong: Judy Yung, Unbound Feet, p. 131.
191 Faith So Leung: Ibid., p. 133. Also Thomas W. Chinn, Bridging the Pacific, pp. 187-89.
191 Dolly Gee: Judy Yung, Unbound Feet, pp. 138-39.
192 Information on Bessie Jeong: Interview