The Journal of American Ethnic History | Vol. 19 No. 2 | HUPING LING: Family and Marriage of Late-Nineteenthand Early-Twentieth Century ChineseImmigrant Women

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Volume 19 • Number 2

Winter 2000

Family and Marriage of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Chinese Immigrant Women

by Huping Ling

This is terrible ghost country, where a human being works her life away. . . . I have not stopped working since the day the ship landed. . . . In China I never even had to hang up my own clothes. I shouldn't have left, but your father couldn't have supported you without me. I'm the one with the big muscles. –Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior.

IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCES in a new country could very likely result in changes in family life and marriage for immigrant women. Once in a different environment and a completely new culture, the female exodus found that the relationship between them and their husbands and children were altered. Like women in other immigrant groups, Chinese immigrant women also experienced changes in their families and marriages.

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