Wong's search for a "middle way" is crystallized in her book's form. It at once poses and tries to answer the question, "Am I of my father's race or am I an American?" Like later works by Chinese American women as Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Wong's book documents a young woman's search "for balance between the pull from two cultures." The book poignantly recounts Wong's search for a "middle way" between the conflicting demands of the traditional Chinese culture of her immigrant parents, with its values of obedience, respect, and order and its assumption of women's inferiority, and the more individualistic American culture. First published in 1950 and still in print in the 1990s, this third-person autobiography was one of the first books published by a Chinese American woman in the United States.įifth Chinese Daughter traces Wong's life in San Francisco through the mid-1940s. Jade Snow Wong's best-known work is Fifth Chinese Daughter. Born 21 January 1922, San Francisco, Californiaĭaughter of Hong and Hing Kwai Tong Wong married WoodrowOng, 1950 children: Ming Tao (Mark Stuart), Lai Yee (Tyi Elizabeth), Lai Wai (Ellora Louise), Ming Choy (Lance Orion)
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