I loved stepping inside shops - a watchmaker's, a cobbler’s. I particularly enjoyed learning about Chinatown in San Francisco. I particularly loved watching how her father and finally her mother changed. She becomes a writer and a pottery craftsman with a shop of her own.

You follow the author to the point where she is able to appreciate both her own heritage and the opportunities afforded by American life. You end up seeing both he good and the bad of both the American and the Chinese culture. What is it like to be caught in two different worlds? I adored learning about the Chinese traditions at the same time as I was horrified by some antiquated beliefs. The process is infinitesimally slow for her parents, faster for the daughter born and raised in the States.

You watch as they acclimatize to their new surroundings. A Chinese family that starts out as Chinese in thought, tradition and customs as you can get. The central theme portrays with clarity an inside view of a Chinese family living in the US. It takes you through the Depression and WW2. She is an impressive woman – here check out this snapshot. It is an autobiography of the first 24 years of her life. The author's father immigrated to the US. This is about an immigrant Chinese American family. I recommend this book, but who is it for? It is for a reader interested in cultural differences. then slowly, bit by bit, you find yourself liking it more and more. It is one of those books you start and think you should dump. And finally the artist whose early triumphs were doubled by the knowledge that she had at long last won recognition from her family. After that the college student feeling her was toward personal identity in the face of parental indifference or outright opposition. Then the schoolgirl caught in confusion between the rigid teaching of her ancestors and the strange ways of her foreign classmates. We first meet Jade Snow Wong the child, narrowly confined by the family and factory life, bound to respect and obey her elders while shouldering responsibility for younger brothers and sisters - a solemn child well versed in the proper order of things, who knew that punishment was sure for any infraction of etiquette. The third-person singular style is rooted in Chinese literary form, reflecting cultural disregard for the individual, yet Jad Snow Wong's story also is typically American. They not only portray a young woman and her unique family in San Francisco's Chinatown, but they are rich in the details that light up a world within the world of America. These memoirs of the author's first twenty-four years are thoughtful, informative, and highly entertaining. Originally published in 1945 and now reissued with a new introduction by the author, Jade Snow Wong's story is one of struggle and achievements.

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