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*The Inferior Woman - The author of The Inferior Woman is Su Sin Far or (Edith Eaton) 1865-1914. This story is about a cultural complex from that era in time where woman where considered inferior. The character Mrs. Spring Fragrance had a son. She wanted her on to marry someone of higher standard or a modern women a more educated women, but in the end she lets her son marry the inferior women because it makes him happy. However she wants to raise their daughter to be a "Modern Women." |
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| Author | Sui Sin Far |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Short story, Asian-American literature |
| Publisher | A. C. McClurg |
Publication date | 1912 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 347 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | NA Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
Mrs. Spring Fragrance was a popular short story collection by Sui Sin Far, pen name of Chinese-British-Canadian-American writer Edith Maude Eaton. The work is notable for being "the earliest book of fiction published in the United States by an author of mixed Chinese and white descent."[1] Although the stories in the collection were written in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they were not compiled into a single book until 1912. The original publisher was A. C. McClurg and Company of Chicago. A new scholarly edition of the book, based on the McClurg edition, was released October, 2011 by Broadview Press.
The stories are divided into two-halves, "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" for adults, and "Tales of Chinese Children" for children. Set in Seattle and San Francisco, they reflect the struggles and joys in the daily lives of Chinese families in North America. Particularly poignant are the stories delineating the cultural conflicts of Eurasians and recent immigrants. In the ironically titled "In the Land of the Free", Eaton shows the suffering inflicted by discriminatory immigration laws.
Contents
- Mrs. Spring Fragrance
- The Inferior Woman - The author of The Inferior Woman is Su Sin Far or (Edith Eaton) 1865-1914. This story is about a cultural complex from that era in time where woman where considered inferior. The character Mrs. Spring Fragrance had a son. She wanted her on to marry someone of higher standard or a modern women a more educated women, but in the end she lets her son marry the inferior women because it makes him happy. However she wants to raise their daughter to be a "Modern Women."
- The Wisdom of the New
- "Its Wavering Image"
- The Story of One White Woman Who Married A Chinese
- Her Chinese Husband
- The Americanizing of Pau Tsu
- In The Land of the Free
- The Chinese Lily
- The Smuggling of Tie Co
- The God of Restoration
- The Prize China Baby
- Lin John
- Tian Shan's Kindred Spirit
- The Sing Song Woman
From Tales of Chinese Children:
- Children of Peace
- The Banishment of Ming and Mai
- The Story of a Little Chinese Seabird
- What About the Cat?
- The Dreams that Failed
- The Heart's Desire
- Misunderstood
- A Chinese Boy-Girl1
- Pat and Pan
References
- ^ Eaton, Edith Maude (2011). Hsuan L. Hsu (ed.). Mrs. Spring Fragrance. Peterborough: Broadview Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-55481-027-7.
- ^ Eaton, Edith Maude (2011). Hsuan L. Hsu (ed.). Mrs. Spring Fragrance. Peterborough: Broadview Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-55481-027-7.
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