Jade Snow Wong\'s autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco\'s Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her strict upbringing, as well as her rebellion against family and societal expectations for a Chinese woman.
The US State Department even sent its charismatic young author on a four-month speaking to.
Originally published in 1950, Fifth Chinese Daughter was one of the most widely read works by an Asian American author in the twentieth century.
Jade Snow Wong\'s autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco\'s Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her strict upbringing, as well as her rebellion against family and societal expectations for a Chinese woman