Unbound spirit : letters of Flora Belle Jan / edited by Fleur Yano and Saralyn Daly ; introduction by Judy Wu.

By:

Jan, Flora Belle, 1906-1950 [Author]

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Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781283044028
9786613044020
6613044024

Other title:

Letters of Flora Belle Jan

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PN5366 .U536 2009

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Contents:

One's true friend -- Wild to go -- All Chinatown is horrified -- Part II: Chicago -- A plunge into domesticity -- Life gives me a heartache -- Paying for the follies of my youth -- Part III: China -- I prefer American shoes -- A straw in the wind -- Chasing mirages -- I have been loyal to China --

Subject: This volume collects the letters written over a thirty-year period by a second generation Chinese American woman, Flora Belle Jan (1906-50). Born in California to immigrant parents and educated at Berkeley and the University of Chicago, Jan raised three children with her husband Charles Wang and worked as a journalist in both the United States and China. Written during the years 1918-48, these letters offer unique insight into the social and political situation of educated, middle-class, professional Chinese American women in the early twentieth century. --From publisher's description.

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Part I: California -- One's true friend -- Wild to go -- All Chinatown is horrified -- Part II: Chicago -- A plunge into domesticity -- Life gives me a heartache -- Paying for the follies of my youth -- Part III: China -- I prefer American shoes -- A straw in the wind -- Chasing mirages -- I have been loyal to China --

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This volume collects the letters written over a thirty-year period by a second generation Chinese American woman, Flora Belle Jan (1906-50). Born in California to immigrant parents and educated at Berkeley and the University of Chicago, Jan raised three children with her husband Charles Wang and worked as a journalist in both the United States and China. Written during the years 1918-48, these letters offer unique insight into the social and political situation of educated, middle-class, professional Chinese American women in the early twentieth century. --From publisher's description.

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