| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Holding Up More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92. By Xiaolan Bao. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xviii, 330 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02631-4.)

Based on many years of interviews, activist involvement, and living with Chinese women garment workers in New York City, this book aims to study "the multiple intersecting forces that have shaped the lives and perceptions of Chinese women garment workers in New York City." It is perhaps the most evocative depiction of the daily lives of Chinese workers in the United States since Paul Siu's 1953 dissertation, The Chinese Laundryman (published 1987). Through long quotations and sensitive accounts of interpersonal relationships, Xiaolan Bao offers a nuanced picture of transformations in personal and family life. Particularly successful are the portrayals of women's growing financial and emotional centrality in the family and of relations among Chinese women born in different parts of the world, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States. . . .

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