MOTIVES FOR IMMIGRATION OF CHINESE WOOMEN IN TURN OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES Ling Huping (95) Despite all the restrictions, Chinese women emigrated to America with various mo tivations. Many left to join their husbands. Others sailed across the ocean for economic reasons. Finally, some educated women arrived in America for personal f ulfillment. Differing in motivations, they shared one thing in common: the desir e to start a new life in America. Upon arrival, most found they had traded a res tricted life in China for another confined one on American soil. They were first detained at the immigration station on Angel Island for months, and later confi ned in crowded quarters in Chinatowns indefinitely. Their lifes seemed to have i mproved little by immigration.