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193 ”My parents wanted to hold onto the old idea”: ”Interview with Lillie Leung,” by Wm. C. Smith, Los Angeles, August 12, 1924. Major Document #76, Box 25, Survey of Race Relations, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University.
193 ”spooning”: Judy Yung, Unbound Feet, p. 166.
193 One San Francisco ABC couple: Description of Daisy Wong Chinn and Thomas W. Chinn in Judy Yung, Unbound Feet, p. 167.
194 founded Pi Alpha Phi: A magazine, February/March 1995, p. 14.
194 Sigma Omicron Pi: Judy Yung, Unbound Feet, p. 128.
194 ”Chinese Collegiate Shuffle!”: Ronald Riddle, Flying Dragons, Flowing Streams: Music in the Life of San Francisco’s Chinese (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983), p. 145, as cited in Huping Ling, p. 104.
194 ”our parents always preached”: Diane Mark and Ginger Chih, A Place Called Chinese America, p. 86.
195 Expatriation Act of 1907: Judy Yung, Unbound Feet, pp. 168-69.
195 1922 Cable Act: Sucheng Chan, ”The Exclusion of Chinese Women,” in Chinese Historical Society of America, Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1994, p. 124.
195 ”My Most Embarrassing Moment”: Interview with Yu-Shan Han, interview #152, Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project.
195 ”Chinese women who are born here are regular flappers”: “Mr. Mar Sui Haw,” Seattle, Washington, by C. H. Burnett, August 28, 1924, p. 11. Major Document #244, Box 29, Survey of Race Relations, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University.
196 ”It is not right for Chinese man born in China”: ”Life History and Social Document of Andrew Kan,“ Seattle, Washington, August 22, 1924, by C. H. Burnett, p. 12. Major Document #178, Box 27, Survey of Race Relations, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University.
196 ”Don’t get married in the United States!”: Lee family oral history project, 1991, p. 21, as cited in Erika Lee, ”The Chinese American Community in Buffalo, New York 1900-1960,” honors thesis at Tufts University, 1991.
196 did not want any of their offspring to marry outside their own dialect: Interview with Rodney H. Chow, interview #149, Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project.
196 Milton L. Barron surveyed 97 Chinese marriages: Milton L. Barron, People Who Intermarry (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1946), pp. 11-19, as cited in Betty Lee Sung, The Story of the Chinese in America, p. 258.
197 ”foreign devil child”: Judy Yung, Unbound Feet, p. 170.
197 ”disapprove very much”: Tye Leung Schulze, ”Ting,” in Louise Schulze Lee private collection, as cited in Judy Yung, Unbound Feet, p. 170.
198 killing or wounding more than seven thousand people: Him Mark Lai, ”Roles Played by Chinese in America During China’s Resistance to Japanese Aggression and During World War II,” Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 1997, p. 76.
Chapter Twelve. Chinese America During the Great Depression
201 ”I remember wearing sneakers with holes in them”: Interview with Lillian Louie, p. 4, New York Chinatown History Project, Museum of Chinese in the Americas.
202 2,300, or 18 percent: Judy Yung, Unbound Feet, p. 183.
202 22 percent: Ibid.
202 ”During the Depression”: Interview with Mark Wong, in Victor G. and Brett de Bary Nee, Longtime Californ‘, p. 168.
202 ”tens of thousands of Chinese laundry men”: Chinese Nationalist Daily, April 24, 1933, p. 1, as cited in Renqiu Yu, To Save China, to Save Ourselves, p. 35.
202 3,200 members: Renqiu Yu, p. 55.
203 Lillian Lee Kim story: Lillian Lee Kim, ”An Early Baltimore Chinese Family: Lee Yick You and Louie Yu Oy,” Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1994 (Brisbane, Calif.: Chinese Historical Society of America, 1994), pp. 155-74.
203 ”thoroughly modern”: Ronald Takaki, Strangers from