My daughter and I are looking for information about the lives of Chinese families in SF around 1880. How was a chinese laundry run during that time? What was Chinatown like? What did it look like? What kind of schooling did the children receive? Thanks for any information.

-- Pamela Jenkins (pamandsteve@hotmail.com), December 19, 2000

Answers

Would recommend Lani Ah Tye Farkas' book "Bury My Bones In America" - The Saga of a Chinese Family in California 1852 to 1996; Publisher is Carl Mautz Publishing, Nevada 1998.

You can also contact Melissa Szeto, Director of the Chinese Historical Society of America, at 415-391-1150, or at info@chsa.org

Good luck with your research!

-- Wolfgang Schubert (chouby@aol.com), December 19, 2000.