{"product_id":"mrs-spring-fragrance-and-other-sui-9780252064197","title":"Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring an era of extreme Sinophobia, the Eurasian Sui Sin Far (1865-1914) courageously wrote of the Chinese in North America as humorous, tragic, charming, and loving--in short, as human. Her stories sympathetically portrayed a group caught between worlds, inheritors of traditional Chinese values who found themselves thrust into booming mercantile and extremely race-conscious cities like San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Montreal at the turn of the last century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Ling and Annette White-Parks select from \u003ci\u003eMrs. Spring Fragrance\u003c\/i\u003e (1914) two dozen of the author's finest stories, including \"In the Land of the Free,\" \"The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese,\" \"Her Chinese Husband,\" and \"The Wisdom of the New.\" They also delve into Children's stories like \"The Story of a Little Chinese Seabird\" and \"What about the Cat?\" A second section offers previously uncollected writings, including journalism and fiction that appeared in the \u003ci\u003eMontreal Daily Witness, Los Angeles Express, New York Independent, The Westerner, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew England Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e The final piece, \"Sui Sin Far, the Half Chinese Writer, Tells of Her Career,\" was printed in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003ein 1912, two years before her death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sui\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252064194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252064197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.84h x 5.92w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/19\/1995 pg. 55","brand":"Sui","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46880861946111,"sku":"9780252064197","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bea2e0a9-35c3-4142-8625-451e882a2d76.jpg?v=1747969948","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mrs-spring-fragrance-and-other-sui-9780252064197","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}