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Contested Childhoods: Chinese American Children and the Politics of Immigration and Assimilation - Wendy Rouse Jorae. The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiii + 295 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-8078-3313-1; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5973-5.

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Wendy Rouse Jorae. The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiii + 295 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-8078-3313-1; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5973-5.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2011

Andy Urban
Andy Urban*
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , July 2011 , pp. 374 - 377
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References

1 See, for example, Lee, Erika, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943 (Chapel Hill, 2003)Google Scholar; and Lau, Estelle, Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion (Durham, NC, 2006)Google Scholar.

2 Pascoe, Peggy, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874–1939 (New York, 1990)Google Scholar.

3 Nayan Shah's study of the bachelor culture of San Francisco's Chinatown, rooted in queer theory, shows how such arrangements threatened normative understandings of what constituted respectable domestic life. Shah, , Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (Berkeley, 2001)Google Scholar.