Fifth Chinese Daughter (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jade Snow Wong
- First Published: 1950
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The 1930’s and 1940’s
- Setting: California
- Principal Characters: Jade Snow Wong, Mr. Wong, Mrs. Wong, Jade Precious Stone, Joe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Parents and children, Tradition, Gender roles, 1940’s, 1930’s, Fathers, Multiculturalism, Conformity, Asian Americans, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans, Career women
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, Oakland, CA
Form and Content
Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter is an autobiographical account, though it is written in the third person, of a Chinese American girl’s growing up in California in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Like many coming-of-age stories, this one concentrates on how the subject chooses a career, establishes viable relations with her parents, and develops a life philosophy adequate to both her ancestry and the new situation she faces. Ironically, though much of the conflict in the book is generated by Jade’s struggle to break with the role of obedient...
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