Chinese Immigrants in Alexandria: Bibliography

Bibliography

Primary Sources

• Alexandria, Virginia, City Directories; 1900, 1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945, and 1949. U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Online.
• “A Severe Castigation.” Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser. November 17, 1894. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025007/1894-11-17/ed-1/seq-3/ (accessed December 8, 2014).
• “China for the Chinese.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle. March 30, 1882. http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50423375/?terms=Chinese (Accessed December 7, 2014).
• “Chinaman Weds American Girl.” (Washington D.C.) Evening Star. January 16, 1900. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1900-01-16/ed-1/seq-11/ (accessed December 9, 2014).
• “Crime Report.” Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser. July 19, 1892. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/”Crime /1892-07-19/ed-1/seq-3/  (accessed December 8, 2014).
• “Governor Seymor on the Chinese Question”. Brooklyn Daily Eagle. February 22, 1879. http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50348295/?terms=Chinese (Accessed December 7, 2014).
• Hong Tow Moy, Chinese Exclusion Act Files, Box 526, RG 85; Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice, New York, NY.
• “Local Brevities.” Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser. Februrary 9, 1895. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025007/1895-02-09/ed-1/seq-3/ (accessed December 8, 2014).
• “Local Brevities.” Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser. Februrary 28, 1894, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025007/1894-02-28/ed-1/seq-3/ (accessed December 8, 2014).
• “Local Brevities.” Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser. July 2, 1895. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025007/1895-07-02/ed-1/seq-3/ (accessed December 8, 2014).
• Moon, Krystyn. “List of Chinese Laundries, 1880’s-1950’s.” Unpublished List, 2014.
• “Moy Gop Yahn, Chinese Detective, Marries an American Woman.” The Washington Post (1877-1922). January 16, 1900. (accessed December 9, 2014).
• “The Chinese Exclusion Act was approved on May 6, 1882. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.” http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=47 (Accessed December 7, 2014).
• U.S. Census Bureau. 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940 Population Census. Virginia Federal Population Schedules – Albemarie, Alexandria, Alleghany, and Amelia Counties. https://archive.org/.

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• Bronstein, Daniel Aaron. The Formation and Development of Chinese Communities in Atlanta, Augusta, and Savannah, Georgia: From Sojourners to Settlers, 1880-1965. PhD diss., Georgia State University, 2008.
• Chan, Sucheng. Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005).
• Cohen, Lucy. Chinese in the Post Civil War South: A People Without History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1984.
• Coolidge, Mary Roberts. Chinese Immigration. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1909.
• Gyory, Andrew.Closing the Gate: Race, Politics and the Chinese Exclusion Act. The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
• Hoe, Ban Seng. Enduring Hardship: The Chinese Laundry in Canada. Québec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2003.
• Jung, Moon-Ho. Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
• Kung, S.W. Chinese In American Life: Some Aspects of Their History, Status, Problems, and Contributions. University of Washington Press: Seattle, 1962.
• Lau, Estelle. Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
• Loewen, James. The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, 1971.
• McClain, Charles J. In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle Against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America. Berkley: University of California Press, 1994. Also available online. (Accessed October 21, 2014).
• Quan, Robert Seto and Roebuck, Julian. Lotus Among the Magnolias: The Mississippi Chinese. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1982.
• Siu, Paul P. C. The Chinese Laundryman: A Study in Social Isolation. Edited by John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York: University Press, 1987.
• Tong, Benson. The Chinese Americans. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2003.