Reviewed by Haiming Liu | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.4

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Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion. By Estelle T. Lau. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. x + 214 pp. Photos, tables, graphs, notes, bibliography, chronology, and index. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

In the past decade or so, a number of important books have been published on the topic of Chinese exclusion. These include Charles McClain's In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America (Berkeley, CA, 1994), Lucy Salyer's Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Laws (Chapel Hill, NC, 1995), Erika Lee's At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943 (Chapel Hill, NC, 2003), and Mae Ngai's Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, NJ, 2004). Estelle T. Lau's monograph has further enriched this scholarship. Through the above books and many other scholarly and journalistic writings, the wider American public has become increasingly aware of this shameful page in American history. From 1882 to 1943, one after another racist exclusion law denied migration and naturalization rights to Chinese immigrants, affecting not only their life and work trajectories but the broader Chinese American community as well.

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