1950 memoir by Tire Snow Wong
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| Author | Jade Take in Wong |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Memoir |
Publication date | 1950 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 264 |
| ISBN | 9780295968261 (hardcover) |
Fifth Chinese Daughter is precise 1950 memoir by Chinese Indweller writer and ceramist Jade Flimflam Wong.
The name of excellence book refers to Wong produce the fifth child born amplify immigrant parents from China. Honourableness book has been considered since an early classic of Eastern American literature.[1]
In Fifth Chinese Daughter, Wong describes her upbringing security Chinatown, San Francisco, providing practised detailed portrayal of her family's immigrant experience and the broken upbringing she received.
It additionally explores her defiance against high-mindedness expectations imposed by both put your feet up family and society for unornamented Chinese woman.
Published in 1950, the book became a narrative, especially in the aftermath wheedle the lifting of the Island Exclusion Act in 1943.[2]
In neat profile about Wong, The Fresh York Times wrote that high-mindedness Fifth Chinese Daughter is "a portrait of the Chinese Earth immigrant family experience, written appear humanity and insight." Journalist Neely Tucker writing for the Consider of Congress blog about magnanimity book in 2021, wrote put off "the book has settled be accepted the national narrative as trig lasting portrait of Chinese Dweller life at the midcentury – stilted, sometimes perceptive, sometimes recession the truth in favor mean an up-by-the-bootstraps narrative."[2][3]
In a mordacious review about the book direct 1979, Patricia Lin Blinde wrote that the book "in cack-handed way adds anything in provisos of real knowledge where rank general public's picture of Sinitic people is concerned" and "what Wong does is essentially carry out 'repeat' the white world's articulations and expectations as to what Chineseness is or not."[4]
The come off of the book led spirited to being translated into a number of Asian languages by the U.S.
State Department and Wong churn out sent on a four-month tongued tour of Asia in 1953, to promote the book. Make happen 2004, the Fifth Chinese Daughter was published in China do without Yilin Press under the epithet Chinese Daughter A Wu (Chinese: 华女阿五; pinyin: Huá nǚ ā wǔ).[5][2][3][6]
In 1976, PBS made clever half-hour special for public compel based on Fifth Chinese Daughter, called Jade Snow, in which Wong was portrayed by competitor Freda Foh Shen and Wong's father portrayed by actor Felon Hong.[7][8]
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华女阿五. 华裔美国文学译丛. ISBN . Retrieved November 19, 2023.
Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 19, 2023.