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Judith "Judy" Yung (January 25, 1946 – December 14, 2020) was a librarian, community activist, historian and professor emerita in American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specialized in oral history, women's history, and Asian American history. [ 1 ][ 2 ] She died on December 14, 2020, in San Francisco, where she had ...
Height. 4.10 ft 0 in (125 cm) Afong Moy was the first known female Chinese immigrant to the United States. [6][7] In 1834, Moy was brought from her hometown of Guangzhou to New York City by traders Nathaniel and Frederick Carne, and exhibited as "The Chinese Lady". Announcements of her exhibitions advertised her clothing, her language, and her ...
The 1875 Page Act was passed, banning Chinese women from entering the United States, to prevent married white men from falling to the temptation to cheat on their wives with Asian women. [31] [32] During the occupation of Japan by the U.S. military, American soldiers came to view Japanese women as superior to American women. Among U.S. soldiers ...
For Chinese women living in the West, pressure from both peers and the media may come together to reinforce thinness as the ideal. White Western women reported feeling significantly higher ...
Golden Gate Girls. Golden Gate Girls is a 2013 documentary film focusing on the life and works of Esther Eng (1914-1970), once honored as the first woman director of Southern China. [1] She crossed boundaries of both gender and culture by making Cantonese language films for Chinese audiences during and after WWII.
Sui Sin Far (Chinese : 水仙花; pinyin : Shuǐ Xiān Huā, born Edith Maude Eaton; 15 March 1865 – 7 April 1914) was an author known for her writing about Chinese people in North America and the Chinese American experience. "Sui Sin Far", the pen name under which most of her work was published, is the Cantonese name of the narcissus flower ...
By 1855, women made up only two percent of the Chinese population in the United States, and even by 1890 this had only increased to 4.8 percent. The lack of visibility of Chinese women in general was due partially to the cost of making the voyage when there was a lack of work opportunities for Chinese women in America.
Sylvia Wu (née Cheng; Chinese: 伍鄭鏡宇; [1] October 24, 1915 – September 29, 2022) was a Chinese-American restaurateur, philanthropist, and cookbook writer. She ran Madame Wu's Garden on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1998. She later briefly opened Madame Wu's Asian Bistro & Sushi.