{"product_id":"mrs-spring-fragrance-and-other-writings-1","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","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244451221848,"sku":"9780252064197","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mrs-spring-fragrance-and-other-writings-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}