Fifth Chinese Daughter (Classics of Asian American Literature)

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Originally published in 1945 and now reissued with a new introduction by the creator, Jade Snow Wong’s story is one of struggle and achievements. These memoirs of the creator’s first twenty-four years are thoughtful, informative, and highly entertaining. They not only portray a young woman and her unique family in San Francisco’s Chinatown, but they’re rich in the details that light up a world within the world of The us. The third-person singular style is rooted in Chinese literary form, reflecting cultural fail to remember for the individual, yet Jad Snow Wong’s story also is usually American.

We first meet Jade Snow Wong the child, narrowly confined by the family and factory life, bound to respect and obey her elders whilst shouldering responsibility for younger brothers and sisters – a solemn child well versed in the correct order of things, who knew that punishment used to be sure for any infraction of etiquette. Then the schoolgirl caught in confusion between the rigid teaching of her ancestors and the peculiar ways of her foreign classmates. After that the college student feeling her used to be toward personal identity in the face of parental indifference or outright opposition. And in the end the artist whose early triumphs were doubled by the knowledge that she had at long last won recognition from her family.

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