Sui Sin Far

Mrs. Spring Fragrance (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.' 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 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 'In the Land of the Free', Eaton shows the suffering inflicted by discriminatory immigration laws.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 187
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783985313419
• Artikelnr.: 62533902

Autorenporträt

Sui Sin Far (1865-1914) was a Chinese English writer known for writing stories on the experience of Chinese people in North America. Born in England to an English father and Chinese mother, she was raised as Edith Maude Eaton. The second of fourteen children, Far moved with her family to New York before returning to England in 1868. In 1872, they emigrated to Montreal, where the family struggled and Far was required to work to support her parents and siblings. At the age of 18, while working as a typesetter for the Montreal Star, Far began writing stories, articles, and poetry for local magazines. In 1896, she went to Jamaica, where she worked as a journalist before moving to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Employed as a legal secretary, she began writing articles exploring her Chinese heritage and stories illuminating the experience of Chinese Americans suffering under the Chinese Exclusion Act. In 1912, she published Mrs. Spring Fragrance, a popular collection of short stories tracing the lives of Chinese families living on the American west coast.