Mrs. Spring Fragrance by Sui Sin Far - ISBN: 9780593241202
Paperback
Love, racism, and identity in old Chinatown: a lost classic.

Mrs. Spring Fragrance

and Other Writings

$27.58

  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    3 August 2021

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Summary

A rediscovered classic of linked short stories set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, by the first published Asian American fiction writer.

In this rediscovered classic of linked short stories set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Sui Sin Far portrays Chinese immigrants as they fall in love, encounter racism, and wrestle with their new Americanized identities—decades before writers like Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan.

By turns tender and dramatic, Mrs. Spring Fragrance tells…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780593241202
ISBN-10:0593241207
Author:Sui Sin Far
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:3 August 2021
Weight:162g
Dimensions:203mm x 132mm
Series:Modern Library Torchbearers
About The Author

Sui Sin Far

Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914), who took the pen name Sui Sin Far, was the first Asian American, man or woman, to publish fiction in the United States. The daughter of a Chinese mother and an English father, Eaton began publishing articles about Montreal’s Chinese Canadian community in English-language newspapers at twenty-five. At thirty-three she moved to the United States, and, asserting her identity as a Chinese American writer (despite her ability to “pass” as white), published stories about Chinese Americans at a time when the United States Congress banned Chinese immigration to the United States.

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