Editing Ching chong (section)

==Historical usage==
[[File:Anti-Chinese Mass Meeting - Tacoma poster.jpg|thumb|A late 19th century anti-Chinese announcement. 'Ching chong' emerged a slur around the time of the [[Chinese Exclusion Act]] in the United States. ]]
While usually intended for ethnic Chinese, the slur has also been directed at other East Asians. [[Mary Paik Lee]], a [[Koreans|Korean]] immigrant who arrived with her family in [[San Francisco]] in 1906, wrote in her 1990 autobiography ''Quiet Odyssey'' that on her first day of school, girls circled and hit her, chanting:

<blockquote>
Ching Chong, [[Chinaman]], <br />
Sitting on a wall. <br />
Along came a white man, <br />
And chopped his head off.<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Paik Lee
 | first = Mary
 | year = 1990
 | editor = Sucheng Chan
 | title = Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America
 | url = https://archive.org/details/quietodysseypion00leem
 | url-access = registration
 | publisher = University of Washington Press
 | location = Seattle
 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/quietodysseypion00leem/page/16 16–17]
| isbn = 9780295969466
 }}</ref>
</blockquote>

A variation of this rhyme is repeated by a young boy in John Steinbeck's 1945 novel ''[[Cannery Row (novel)|Cannery Row]]'' in mockery of a Chinese man. In this version, "wall" is replaced with "rail", and the phrase "chopped his head off" is changed to "chopped off his [[Queue (hairstyle)|tail]]":

<blockquote>
Ching Chong, Chinaman, <br/>
Sitting on a rail. <br/>
Along came a white man, <br/>
And chopped off his tail. <br/> 
</blockquote>

In 1917, a [[ragtime]] piano song entitled "[[:s:Ching Chong|Ching Chong]]" was co-written by Lee S. Roberts and [[J. Will Callahan]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lib.indstate.edu/about/units/rbsc/kirk/PDFs/sm1917_ching.pdf |title='Ching Chong,' words by J. Will Callahan, music by Lee S. Roberts |access-date=2019-02-11 |archive-date=2021-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110234517/https://lib.indstate.edu/about/units/rbsc/kirk/PDFs/sm1917_ching.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Its lyrics contained the following words:

<blockquote>
"Ching, Chong, Oh Mister Ching Chong,<br/>
You are the king of [[Chinatown]].<br/>
Ching Chong, I love your sing-song,<br/>
When you have turned the lights all down."<br/>
</blockquote>