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Mrs. Spring Fragrance and other writings / Sui Sin Far ; introduction by C Pam Zhang.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.2.S93 M77 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sui Sin Far, 1865-1914, author.
- Series:
- Modern Library torch bearers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--Fiction.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--Fiction.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.).
- California--San Francisco--Chinatown.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 169 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Modern Library trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Library, 2021.
- Summary:
- A rediscovered classic of linked short stories set in San Francisco's Chinatown, portraying Chinese Americans as they fall in love, encounter racism, and wrestle with their new, hyphenated identities-a century before writers like Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. Set in early twentieth-century Chinatown, Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings is the story of Chinese men and women living in the United States as they wrestle with prejudice and forced detention; choose to become wholly Americanized or stay true to their cultural heritage; meet both kind and predatory Americans; and find love, purpose, and understanding within their families. By turns ironic and heart-rending, these stories are windows into the lives of everyday people in an unforgiving, often racist city who find solidarity and hope in the most unexpected places.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Mrs. Spring Fragrance
- The Inferior Woman
- The Wisdom of the New
- "Its Wavering Image"
- The Gift of Little Me
- The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese
- Her Chinese Husband
- The Americanizing of Pau Tsu
- In the Land of the Free
- The Chinese Lily
- The Smuggling of Tie Co
- The God of Restoration
- The Three Souls of Ah So Nan
- The Prize China Baby
- Lin John
- Tian Shan's Kindred Spirit
- The Sing Song Woman.
- ISBN:
- 9780593241202
- 0593241207
- OCLC:
- 1202057554
- Publisher Number:
- 99988922883
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