| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Xiaolan Bao. Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92. Foreword by Roger Daniels. (The Asian American Experience.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 330. $44.95.

Xiaolan Bao's book is a significant and welcome addition to the growing scholarship on Chinese-American history. By employing oral history interviews, newspapers, and archival documents in both English and Chinese, Bao's study meticulously records the poignant stories of the New York Chinese garment workers in the broader contexts of the history of the garment industry, Chinese immigrant labor, and the Chinese community in New York City. 1

The title of the book derives from a popular adage, "Women hold up half the sky," derived from Mao Zedong's writing and frequently quoted by both the Chinese governmental propaganda machine and the public to promote gender equality and emphasize the elevated role of women in Chinese society since the Communist takeover in 1949. Here, Bao's variation of "more than half the sky" attempts to recognize the significant contributions of these ordinary garment workers to their families, the labor unions, the Chinese immigrant community, and American society as well. . . .

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