Critical Essay by Ernestine Evans
[Fifth Chinese Daughter] is like one of those enticing oriental sets of boxes, one inside the other. There is more to it than its gravely simple and humorous anecdot...
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Critical Essay by Joyce Geary
Writing an autobiography at the age of 27 is a rather amazing thing to do. Jade Snow Wong's ["Fifth Chinese Daughter"], though, is not so much the s...
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Critical Essay by E. V. R. Wyatt
[Fifth Chinese Daughter] is a study of the conflict in the lives of Chinatown's younger generation—a conflict between the weight of Chinese tradition an...
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Critical Essay by Jade Snow Wong
The substance of Fifth Chinese Daughter is concerned with the conflicts and subsequent drama of the collision of worlds within the Chinese-American girl. At first, in...
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Critical Essay by May Hill Arbuthnot
[Fifth Chinese Daughter] is an enchanting record of Chinese customs and celebrations as well as the gradually unfolding talents of young Jade…. Her happy a...
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth A. Teo
[Jade Snow's] varied interests stimulate some fascinating insights about people and things Oriental [in No Chinese Stranger]—on the unexpected artistr...
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Critical Essay by Ernestine Evans
