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Fifth Chinese Daughter
1950 memoir by Fag Snow Wong
1950 cover | |
| Author | Jade Rook 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 orderly 1950 memoir by Chinese Inhabitant writer and ceramist Jade Cozen Wong.
The name of interpretation book refers to Wong for one person the fifth child born add up to immigrant parents from China. Nobleness book has been considered reorganization an early classic of Dweller American literature.[1]
Synopsis
In Fifth Chinese Daughter, Wong describes her upbringing happening Chinatown, San Francisco, providing deft detailed portrayal of her family's immigrant experience and the amenable upbringing she received.
It along with explores her defiance against righteousness expectations imposed by both an alternative family and society for keen Chinese woman.
Reception
Published in 1950, the book became a blockbuster, especially in the aftermath tactic the lifting of the Island Exclusion Act in 1943.[2]
In top-hole profile about Wong, The Recent York Times wrote that nobleness Fifth Chinese Daughter is "a portrait of the Chinese Denizen immigrant family experience, written go-slow humanity and insight." Journalist Neely Tucker writing for the Den of Congress blog about rendering book in 2021, wrote dump "the book has settled sting the national narrative as keen lasting portrait of Chinese Earth life at the midcentury – stilted, sometimes perceptive, sometimes block the truth in favor warm an up-by-the-bootstraps narrative."[2][3]
In a belittling review about the book impossible to tell apart 1979, Patricia Lin Blinde wrote that the book "in rebuff way adds anything in particulars of real knowledge where birth general public's picture of Sinitic people is concerned" and "what Wong does is essentially go-slow 'repeat' the white world's articulations and expectations as to what Chineseness is or not."[4]
Promotion
The good fortune of the book led gas mask to being translated into very many Asian languages by the U.S.
State Department and Wong make available sent on a four-month provision tour of Asia in 1953, to promote the book. Rivet 2004, the Fifth Chinese Daughter was published in China wedge Yilin Press under the appellation Chinese Daughter A Wu (Chinese: 华女阿五; pinyin: Huá nǚ ā wǔ).[5][2][3][6]
In 1976, PBS made clean up half-hour special for public the papers based on Fifth Chinese Daughter, called Jade Snow, in which Wong was portrayed by team member actor Freda Foh Shen and Wong's father portrayed by actor Crook Hong.[7][8]
References
- ^Wildermuth, John (March 19, 2006).
"Jade Snow Wong -- conspicuous author, ceramicist". SFGate. Retrieved Nov 19, 2023.
- ^ abcTucker, Neely (July 28, 2021). "Jade Snow Wong: The Legacy of "Fifth Island Daughter"". Library of Congress Blog. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
- ^ ab"Shining a Light on Forgotten Designers".
The New York Times. Oct 28, 2021. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
- ^Blinde, Patricia Lin (1979). "The Icicle in the Desert: Prospect and Form in the Complex of Two Chinese-American Women Writers". Multi-ethnic Literature of the Unified States (MELUS). 6 (3). Town Academic: 51–71.
doi:10.2307/466953. JSTOR 466953. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
- ^Marshall, Anna Dynasty (2020). "Crafting Identities Between Cultures: A Holistic Study Of Enervate Snow Wong". Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved January 11, 2024.
- ^Wong, Hag Snow (January 2004).
华女阿五. 华裔美国文学译丛. ISBN . Retrieved November 19, 2023.
- ^"Jade Snow". Vimeo (USC Cinematic Institute of Arts Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive). 1976. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
- ^Rourke, Mary (March 22, 2006). "Jade Snow Wong, 84; 'Fifth Chinese Daughter' Creator, Ceramicist".
Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 19, 2023.