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229 ”I had never felt so happy and proud”: Gloria He-Yung Chun interview with David Gan, former soldier with the U.S. Army. Gloria He-Yung Chung, Of Orphans and Warriors, p. 85.
229 asked if they were part of the Chinese army: Christina M. Lim and Sheldon H. Lim, ”In the Shadow of the Tiger: The 407th Air Service Squadron, Fourteenth Air Force, CB1, World War II,” Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1993, p. 27.
229 ”goddamn Chink”: Peter Phan, ”Familiar Strangers: The Fourteenth Air Service Group; Case Study of Chinese American Identity During World War II,” Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1993, p. 85.
229 all his possessions thrown out the window: Ibid.
229 ”I was told that ‘no Chinaman will ever fly in my outfit’ ”: Oral history interview with William Der Bing in 1979, in Diane Mei Lin Mark and Ginger Chih, A Place Called Chinese America, p. 96.
230 ”I was so damn surprised”: Peter Phan, ”Familiar Strangers,” Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1993, p. 87.
230 Gordon P. Chung-Hoon: ”Navy Names Destroyer to Honor Rear Adm. Chung-Hoon,” Department of Defense press release, October 10, 2000; ”Navy Ship Named for Isle World War II Hero,” Associated Press, October 12, 2000.
231 ”China is your home”: Peter Phan, ”Familiar Strangers,” Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1993, p. 78.
231 Nationalist soldiers marching in straw sandals: Ibid., p. 91.
231 John Chuck: Ibid., p. 90.
231 ”behind time”: Ibid., p. 93.
232 ”Except for the uniforms”: Christina M. Lim and Sheldon H. Lim, ”In the Shadow of the Tiger,” Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1993, p. 62.
233 Information on Air WACs: Author interview with Judith Bellafaire, Ph.D., curator of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Inc., January 27, 2003; Judith Bellafaire, ”Asian-American Servicewomen in Defense of the Nation,” 1999 article available online from http://www.womensmemoriaI.org/APA.html and included in the Women in Military Service for American Memorial exhibit, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia; Rudi Williams, ”Asian Pacific American Women Served in World War II, Too,” American Forces Press Service, May 1999.
233 Helen Pon Onyett: Judith Bellafaire, ”Asian-American Servicewomen in Defense of the Nation”; Huping Ling, Surviving on the Gold Mountain, p. 120.
234 as long as the marriage had occurred before May 26, 1924: Roger Daniels, Asian America, pp. 96-97.
234 only about sixty Chinese women a year: Origins & Destinations: 41 Essays on Chinese America, p. 89; Roger Daniels, Asian America, p. 97.
234 male-female ratio was three to one: Yen Le Espiritu, Asian American Women and Men, p. 55.
234 almost six thousand Chinese American soldiers: Ibid.
234 One soldier on leave flew to China: Rose Hum Lee, ”The Recent Immigration Chinese Families of the San Francisco-Oakland Area,” Marriage and Family Living 18 (1956), pp. 14-24. As cited in Huping Ling, p. 114.
234 80 percent of all new Chinese arrivals: Peter Kwong, The New Chinatown, p. 20.
234 an average of two births a day: L. Ling-chi Wang, ”Politics of Assimilation and Repression,” p. 284.
234 many had to sleep in the hallways: Author interview with Him Mark Lai, March 16, 1999, San Francisco.
234 soared from 77,000 to 117,000: Yen Le Espiritu, p. 55.
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237 fewer than one in four survived: J. A. G. Roberts, A Concise History of China (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 239.
238 ”its readiness to conclude”: A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941-49, prepared at the request of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations by the Staff of the Committee and the Department of State. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1950, produced online by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/yalta.htm
240 ”When a Chinese with some influence”: Murray A. Rubinstein, ed., Taiwan: