Originally published in 1945,this is the first of Wong's two autobiographical volumes, Fifth Chinese Daughter. "The book was translated into several Asian languages by the U.S. State Department, which sent her on a four-month speaking tour of Asia in 1953. "I was sent," Wong wrote, "because those Asian audiences who had read translations of Fifth Chinese Daughter did not believe a female born to poor Chinese immigrants could gain a toehold among prejudiced Americans." Her second volume, No Chinese Stranger, was published in 1975" -- from Wikipedia.

Fifth Chinese Daughter

Wong, Jade Snow

Harper and Row, Publishers

1965

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