22 LEWD CHINESE WOMEN: CHY LUNG V. FREEMAN

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Cases

Arizona v. United States, 132 S. Ct. 2492 (2012)

Chy Lung v. Freeman, 92 U.S. 275 (1876)

Ex Parte Ah Fook, 49 Cal. 402 (1874)

In re Ah Fong, 1 F. Cas. 213 (Cir. Ct. D. Cal. 1874)

In re Chy Lung (Dist. Ct., 4th Jud. Dist. San Francisco, Cal. Aug. 29, 1874), published in A Righteous Decision: Judge Morrison Orders the Chinese Courtesans to Be Taken Back to China, S.F. Chronicle, at 5 (Aug. 30, 1874)

Websites

Chinese American Women: A History of Resilience and Resistance (National Women’s History Museum, last visited August 16, 2013), http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/chinese/20.html

Cook, Jesse Brown, San Francisco’s Old Chinatown (Virtual Museum of City of San Francisco, last visited August 16, 2013) (article by former police commissioner of San Francisco), http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist9/cook.html

Kramer, Paul A., The Case of the 22 Lewd Chinese Women (Slate.com, posted April 23, 2012), http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/04/arizona_s_immig ration_law_at_the_supreme_court_lessons_for_s_b_1070_via_the_case_of_the_22_lewd_chinese_women.html

Salyer, Lucy, Chew Heong v. United States: Chinese Exclusion and the Federal Courts (Federal Judicial Center, last visited August 16, 2013), http://www.fjc.gov/history/docs/exclusion.pdf

Books

Chan, Sucheng, The Exclusion of Chinese Women, 1870 – 1943 in Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America (Sucheng Chan, ed., 1991)

Choy, Philip P., San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History and Architecture (2012)

Espiritu, Yen Le, Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love (1996)

Jorae, Wendy Rouse, The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco (2009)

McClain, Charles J., In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle Against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America (1994)

Metrick-Chen, Lenore, Class, Race, Floating Signifier: American Media Imagine the Chinese, 1870–1900, in Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions (Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel, eds., (2012)

Peffer, George Anthony, If They Don’t Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion (1999)

Salyer, Lucy E., Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law (1995)

Yung, Judy, Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco (1995)

Yung, Judy, Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco (1999)

Law Review Articles

Abrams, Kelly, Polygamy, Prostitution, and the Federalization of Immigration Law, 105 Columbia Law Review 641 (2005)

Hirata, Lucie Cheng, Free, Indentured, Enslaved: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America, 5 Signs 3 (Autumn 1979)

Lopez, Gerald P., “Don’t We Like Them Illegal?,” 45 U.C. Davis Law Review 1711 (2012)

McKanders, Karla Mari, Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Acts: Exploring Their Similarities, 61 Catholic Univ. L. Rev. 921 (2012)

Tichenor, Daniel J., “Raising Arizona v. United States: Historical Patterns of American Immigration Federalism,” Lewis & Clark Law Review 1215 (2012)

Yin, Paul, The Narratives of Chinese-American Litigation During the Chinese Exclusion Era, 19 Asian American L.J. 145 (2012)

Newspaper Articles

Chinese Women Arrested: A Furore in Chinadom in Reference to the Matter, Daily Alta (Aug. 26, 1874)

The Chinese Maidens: They Came to California for Husbands Who Are Married to Them and Husbands Who Are Not, Daily Alta (Aug. 27, 1874)

The Twenty-Two Chinese Maidens: Undeniable Evidence of Their Immoral Tendencies, Daily Alta (Aug. 28, 1874)

The Chinese Maidens: Judge Morrison to Render His Decision This Morning, Daily Alta (Aug. 29, 1874)

The Chinese Maidens: Judge Morrison Remands Them to the Custody of the Captain of the “Japan,” Daily Alta (Aug. 30, 1874)

The Celestial Maidens, Daily Alta (Sept. 13, 1874)

The Chinese Maidens: Their Case Before the United States Circuit Court, Daily Alta (Sept. 17., 1874)

The Chinese Maidens: The Matter Taken Under Advisement, Daily Alta (Sept. 18, 1874)

The Chinese Women, Daily Alta (Sept. 18, 1874)

A Cargo of Infamy: Efforts to Stop the Influx of Oriental Iniquity, S.F. Chronicle, at 3 (Aug. 28, 1874)

A Righteous Decision: Judge Morrison Orders the Chinese Courtesans to be Taken Back to China, S.F. Chronicle, at 5 (Aug. 30, 1874)

The Chinese Cyprians: Arguments of the Habeas Corpus Case in the Supreme Court, S.F. Chronicle, at 2 (Sept. 5, 1874)

The Chinese Courtesans: Significant Remarks of Judge Field in Their Case, S.F. Chronicle, at 3 (Sept. 19, 1874)

The Cyprians Set Free: Justice Field’s Decision in the Chinese Habeas Case, S.F. Chronicle, at 1 (Sept. 22, 1874)

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