Fifth Chinese daughter.
By: [Autobiography] With illus. by Kathryn Uhl.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Wong, Jade Snow; Wong, Jade Snow; Potters -- California -- Biography
Description: Jade Snow Wong grew up in a traditional Chinese family in San Francisco's pre-World War II Chinatown. It was a world in which wives were introduced by their husbands as "my inferior woman," rules were taught with corporal punishment, and home life was literally connected to the family business. She becomes determined to go to college and gain more independence than she has been taught to expect. Her decision sets off a balancing process between cultures that Jade Snow Wong, in correct Chinese third person, explores with humor, reverence, and philosophical insight.