I believe these factors contributed to why Ona, the Leong's middle daughter committed suicide. Nice set up. In this paragraph, the writer discusses the pressures on Chinese American daughters, then the writer ends with a comment about that pressure and the daughter who committed suicide. When Chinese immigrate to the United States, there are several factors that interfere with the maintenance of filial relations. In modern society, many unique structural features supporting filial piety are disappearing.
Professional training displaces private property as a source of income.
A good example of this in the book was the issue of Leon needing to apply for social security. Also, the older Leon got I think he felt the less he'd be needed and thus forgotten, like many of his friends. The second half of the above paragraph had another good sequence with an outside quote followed by a Bone reference. We saw the frustration and resentment Leila felt with her parents because they couldn't speak English which forced her to be their translators. The situation is very different in China.