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George Anthony Peffer, If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration before Exclusion , Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. 184. $37.50 cloth (ISBN 0-252-02469-9); $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-252-06777-0).

"[My father and mother live in San Francisco], in a store. [My father's name is] Tin Yung. [He has been here] about five years. When I lived with my grandfather [in China], my father sent letter to me and called me to go back to California; that he was in a store," testified fourteen-year-old Loy How in a plea to remain in America with her father and mother (1). George Anthony Peffer in If They Don't Bring Their Women Here uses Loy How's statement to dramatically open his book on Chinese American women in the decade before the infamous 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, an act that virtually ended Chinese immigration to the United States until the middle of the twentieth century. After perusing newspapers, legal proceedings, and government documents, Peffer underlines the importance of legal enforcement rather than enactment, creates an alternative periodization of Chinese America before exclusion, and clarifies some of the "obscurity" of Chinese women's lives in the male dominated, pre-exclusion studies (xi). More specifically, he focuses around the 1875 Page Law, legislation that banned the migration of prostitutes to the United States. He argues that despite its language specifying the exclusion of prostitutes, the Page Law in fact, effectively inhibited all Chinese women from immigrating, regardless of whether they exchanged money for sexual favors or not. Additionally, Peffer demarcates a seven-year window of female exclusion, a period previously labeled as a time of unrestricted family migration.