Unbound Feet: A Social History Of Chinese Women In San Francisco - Plot & Excerpts
President Coolidge with her fouryear-old daughter, Bak Heong (meaning "forced to leave the home vil- lage").1 The Chinese Exclusion Act was still in force, so my father, Tom Yip Jing (a.k.a. Yung Hin Sen), changed his status from laborer to merchant by declaring partnership in a Chinese art goods business. This way, my mother could come as a merchant's wife. Mother was glad to be leaving war-torn China for what she believed would be "heaven," despite her maternal grandmother's warnings. She took with her the parting words of her mother: "Be sure to send for your two younger brothers as soon as you can." Nothing was said about her three younger sisters. Although the practice of footbinding had stopped with Great-Grandmother's generation, feudal ideology concerning male preference was still very much alive in many parts of China.Mother and Bak Heong, upon arrival in San Francisco, were detained at the immigration station temporarily located on Silver Avenue (the Angel Island station was destroyed by fire in 1940).
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