Fifth Chinese Daughter / Jade Snow Wong, Leslie Bow, and Kathryn Uhl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, Jade Snow, author.

Bow, Leslie, 1962- author.

Uhl, Kathryn, 1910-2000, author.

Series:

Classics of Asian American literature.

Classics of Asian American Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese American artists.

Chinese American women.

Potters.

Women potters.

Wong, Jade Snow.

Physical Description:

1 online resource. 1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2019]

Summary:

Jade Snow Wong’s autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco's Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her strict upbringing, as well as her rebellion against family and societal expectations for a Chinese woman. Originally published in 1950, Fifth Chinese Daughter was one of the most widely read works by an Asian American author in the twentieth century. The US State Department even sent its charismatic young author on a four-month speaking tour throughout Asia.Cited as an influence by prominent Chinese American writers such as Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston, Fifth Chinese Daughter is a foundational work in Asian American literature. It was written at a time when few portraits of Asian American life were available, and no similar works were as popular and broadly appealing. This new edition includes the original illustrations by Kathryn Uhl and features an introduction by Leslie Bow, who critically examines the changing reception and enduring legacy of the book and offers insight into Wong’s life as an artist and an ambassador of Chinese American culture.

Contents:

The world was new

The world grows

Forgiveness from heaven

Grandmother and her world back home

Lucky to be born a Chinese

Uncle Kwok

Learning to be a Chinese housewife

The taste of independence

Saturday's reward and Sunday's holiday

"One who or that which slips"

With eyes on China

Cousin Kee

A person as well as a female

Girl meets boy

A measure of freedom

Marriage old and new style

An unexpected offer

and a decision

"Learning can never be poor or exhausted"

Musicians on and off stage

She finds her hands

A summer of excitements

Sending the ships to war

"A little child shall lead them"

Rediscovering Chinatown

The sanctum of harmonious spring

Alas, she was born too tall

A life plan is cast

"The work of one day is gazed upon for one thousand days."

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295745916

0295745916

OCLC:

1287098454