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Carman wants him to marry into a family of higher social standing, her son is in love with a local girl who works as a legal secretary. Spring Fragrance encounters her neighbors, the Carmans, as they try to find someone to marry their son. Spring Fragrance is considered one of the earliest works of fiction published in the United States by a woman of Chinese heritage. Inspired by her experience living among Chinese Americans in San Francisco and Seattle, Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) is a collection of short stories by Sui Sin Far. She gave voice to Chinese American women and children, breaking the stereotypes of silence, invisibility, and "bachelor society." She presented portraits of turn-of-the-century Chinese with an insider's sympathy. Today Sui Sin Far is finally being rediscovered as part of American literature and history. She lived briefly in Jamaica and then, from 1898 to 1912, in the United States. In the 1880s and 1890s she worked as a stenographer, journalist, and fiction writer in Montreal, often writing under the name she has come to be known by, Sui Sin Far (Water Lily). Her family moved to Quebec in the early 1870s she was removed from school at age ten to help support her parents and twelve siblings. The eldest daughter of a Chinese mother and British father, Edith Maude Eaton was born in England in 1865. The first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays a gifted, unsung woman and a world rarely seen in anything other than stereotypes.
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These stories are windows into the lives of everyday people in an unforgiving city, who find solidarity and hope in the most unexpected places. Spring Fragrance tells of the Chinese women and men as they confront prejudice and forced detention choose to assimilate or stay true to their cultural heritage meet both kind and predatory Americans and find love, purpose, and understanding in their new home. Becoming Sui Sin Far significantly expands our understanding of the themes and topics that defined Eaton’s oeuvre and will interest scholars and students of Canadian, American, Asian North American, and ethnic literatures and history.ĭownload Mrs Spring Fragrance Book in PDF, Epub and KindleĪ rediscovered classic of linked short stories set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, by the first published Asian American fiction writer-with an introduction by C Pam Zhang, bestselling author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold In this rediscovered classic of linked short stories set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Sui Sin Far portrays Chinese immigrants as they fall in love, encounter racism, and wrestle with their new Americanized identities-decades before writers like Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. The volume also includes an expanded bibliography that lists over two hundred and sixty works attributed to Eaton, a detailed biographical timeline, and a newly discovered interview with Eaton from the year in which she first adopted the orientalist pseudonym for which she is best known. Mary Chapman’s introduction provides an insightful and readable overview of Eaton’s transnational career. Showcasing her playful humour, savage wit, and deep sympathy, the texts included in this volume assert a significant place for Eaton in North American literary history. These works of fiction and journalism, in diverse styles and from a variety of perspectives, document Eaton’s early career as a short story writer, “stunt-girl” journalist, ethnographer, political commentator, and travel writer. Becoming Sui Sin Far collects and contextualizes seventy of Eaton’s early works, most of which have not been republished since they first appeared in turn-of-the-century periodicals. Born in England to a Chinese mother and a British father, and raised in Montreal, Edith Eaton is a complex transnational writer whose expanded oeuvre demands reconsideration. Newly discovered works, however, reveal that Edith Eaton (1865–1914) published on a wide variety of subjects – and under numerous pseudonyms – in Canada and Jamaica for a decade before she began writing Chinatown fiction signed “Sui Sin Far” for US magazines.
Spring Fragrance, was rescued from obscurity in the 1990s, scholars were quick to celebrate Sui Sin Far as a pioneering chronicler of Asian American Chinatowns.
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