Fifth Chinese Daughter (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jade Snow Wong
- First Published: 1950
- Time of Work: 1927–1945
- Setting: San Francisco and Oakland, California
- Principal Characters: Jade Snow Wong, Hong “Daddy” Wong, Momma Wong, Joe, The Kaisers, The Simpsons, Dr. Reinhardt, The Dean
- 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
Each of the twenty-eight chapters of Fifth Chinese Daughter focuses on an episode that helped to shape Jade Snow Wong’s search for her own identity. Although the book is an autobiography, it is written in the third person because, according to Wong, using “I” would be terribly immodest for anyone reared according to the rules of Chinese propriety.
The first five chapters of the book describe Wong’s perception of the events and people in her life as a young child before the age of six in a Chinese-American household in San Francisco. Her...
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