Similarly, Frank Chin questions her integrity both as a writer and as a Chinese American, stating in the introduction to Aiiieeeee! that she was "obviously manipulated by white publishers to write to and from the stereotype" of Asian Americans (13). Kim, for example, grants that the book "is valuable as a document of Asian American social history" but considers the author herself "psychologically vulnerable" to racist demands and ultimately, "in light of today's changing attitudes, rather pathetic" (72). (3) This debate focuses not only on the text itself, but also on Wong's "personal integrity," to borrow a phrase from Sau-ling Cynthia Wong's account of the "pen wars" concerning Maxine Hong Kingston and The Woman Warrior (29). (1) Scholars continue to debate Wong in these terms, whether by attempting to recuperate her reputation (2) or by cautioning that Wong's accommodations of her white majority audience are still reason for concern. Comparisons of the book to contemporary writing took place at Wong's expense, and she was accused of capitulating to her readers' tastes for exotic stereotype in an era that prized overt resistance to such demands. Wong is survived by two sons, two daughters and four grandchildren.Ever since the 1970s, as writers and critics began to develop an Asian American canon and search for role models for their own writing, Jade Snow Wong and her 1950 autobiography, Fifth Chinese Daughter, have been forcefully criticized.
She was the topic of a PBS special in 1976 called "Jade Snow." She also created prize-winning pottery that was exhibited in museums nationwide and ran a travel agency with her husband, Woodrow Ong. Her second book, "No Chinese Stranger," was published in 1975. She was in her mid-20s when she wrote her first book, which was in third person because Chinese tradition frowns on first-person narratives as being immodest, the Times said. Her professional name, Jade Snow, was a translation of her Chinese name but she was known to her friends as Constance, the newspaper said.
"Fifth Chinese Daughter," the first of two memoirs, was a re-telling of Wong's life with her eight siblings and immigrant parents in San Francisco.
Wong died at her home Thursday of cancer, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. SAN FRANCISCO, (UPI via COMTEX) - "Fifth Chinese Daughter" author Jade Snow Wong has died in San Francisco at age 84. Reading or replaying the story in itsĪrchived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Only for your personal, non-commercial use.
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