| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion. By Estelle T. Lau. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. x, 214 pp. Cloth, $74.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3735-5. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3747-8.)

The story of paper families is not new to students of Chinese American studies. Since the early 1990s, many scholars have taken a close look at the topic, utilizing declassified Chinese immigration records at the National Archives. Several published works have examined the history of Chinese immigration during exclusion, with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) as law enforcement agent on the one side and the creativities of individual Chinese trying to circumvent exclusionary laws on the other. Still, the richness of the interrogation files warrants further research. As the first book-length study that focuses on fictive family ties among the Chinese, Paper Families attempts to shed more light on our understanding of Chinese exclusion and the Chinese American community.

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