
Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912)
Sui Sin Far(Author)
Hsuan L. Hsu(Editor)
Broadview Press Ltd
Published on 12. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-55481-027-7 (ISBN)
Description
Among the first works of fiction in English by a North American writer of Asian descent, the stories collected in Mrs. Spring Fragrance present a complex and sympathetic picture of life in American Chinese communities in the early twentieth century. Far's seemingly simple stories of family life reveal the tensions created by cultural assimilation. Rather than embracing any particular identity, the stories show a cosmopolitan sensibility that embraces "the motley throng of all nationalities' in the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown.
Appendices include materials on Chinese exclusion, missionaries and assimilation, and contemporary representations of Chinatown.
Appendices include materials on Chinese exclusion, missionaries and assimilation, and contemporary representations of Chinatown.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-55481-027-7 (9781554810277)
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Persons
Sui Sin Far (1865-1914) was the pen name of Edith Maud Eaton. Born in England and raised in Montreal, she lived in Jamaica and many parts of the United States.
Hsuan L. Hsu is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis.
Hsuan L. Hsu is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis.