Mrs. Spring Fragrance : and other writings /

Mrs. Spring Fragrance : and other writings /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sui Sin Far, 1865-1914, author.
Edition:	Modern Library trade paperback edition.
Imprint:	New York : Modern Library, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xi, 169 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Chinese Americans -- Fiction. Chinese Americans. Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction. California -- San Francisco -- Chinatown. Fiction. Short stories. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12624096

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Other authors / contributors:	Zhang, C Pam, writer of introduction.
ISBN:	9780593241202 0593241207 9780593241219
Summary:	A rediscovered classic of linked short stories set in San Francisco's Chinatown, portraying Chinese Americans as they fall in love, encounter racism, and wrestle with their new, hyphenated identities-a century before writers like Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. Set in early twentieth-century Chinatown, Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings is the story of Chinese men and women living in the United States as they wrestle with prejudice and forced detention; choose to become wholly Americanized or stay true to their cultural heritage; meet both kind and predatory Americans; and find love, purpose, and understanding within their families. By turns ironic and heart-rending, these stories are windows into the lives of everyday people in an unforgiving, often racist city who find solidarity and hope in the most unexpected places.

Table of Contents:

Mrs. Spring fragrance
The inferior woman
The wisdom of the new
"Its wavering image"
The gift of little me
The story of one White woman who married a Chinese
Her Chinese husband
The Americanizing of Pau Tsu
In the land of the free
The Chinese lily
The smuggling of the Tie Co
The god of restoration
The three sould of Ah So Nana
The prize China baby
Lin John
Tian Shan's kindred spirit
The sing song woman
Leaves from the mental portfolio of and Eurasian.