![]() ![]() Wong attended San Francisco City College and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Mills College in 1942. "People would come to her shop and tell her how much the book meant to them," he said. Over the years, women from as far away as Afghanistan would come to her Russian Hill studio and travel agency to say "I felt you were writing about my father," said her son, San Francisco book designer Mark Stuart Ong. "Life was secure but formal, sober but quietly happy and the few problems she had were entirely concerned with what was proper or improper in the behavior of a little Chinese girl."īut it wasn't just Chinese Americans who felt the impact of her book. "Until she was 5 years old, Jade Snow's world was almost wholly Chinese, for her world was her family, the Wongs," she writes in her book. ![]() Wong, who was also known as Constance Ong, wrote about a Chinatown and a home life foreign to even many Chinese readers today. Her story about growing up as one of nine children in her family's small clothing factory in Chinatown and her struggle to succeed both as an American woman and as the daughter of an immigrant family continues as a fixture on college reading lists.īorn on the day of a rare San Francisco snowfall in 1922, Ms. "Fifth Chinese Daughter," written in 1945, has been described as an early classic of Asian American literature and has never been out of print. ![]()
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