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Author: Jade Snow Wong
Creator: Kathryn Uhl
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

43 reviews
Sales Rank: 112973

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 246
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.6

ISBN: 0295968265
Dewey Decimal Number: 738.0924
EAN: 9780295968261

Publication Date: June 1989
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Condition: SOFTCOVER, GOOD CONDITION WITH MODERATE COSMETIC WEAR, PAGES CLEAN WITH NO HIGHLIGHTING/UNDERLINING/MARKS, BINDING TIGHT, NO MAJOR FLAWS

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Fith Chinese Daughter July 1, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Fifth Chinese Daughter, a book that is at first REALLY hard to understand, is a book that gives you a really good appreciation on who you are and where you come from. Jade Snow is an American-born Chinese girl, who sticks out in the Chinatown in San Francisco, California. She experiences things that other girls wouldn't have in the 1930's and 1940's. Jade Snow is the main character, and is also one of six girls in the Wong family. There are also two boys and a grandma. Jade Snow suffers loss, great friendship, and many lessons. One of the lessons that I learned by reading this book is that you should be proud that I could call myself American, as did Jade Snow. I am glad that I was not forced to go to Chinese school in San Francisco, California for nine years. There were many things that I enjoyed about the book. One of the reasons really stood out. This reason is also a lesson I have learned. The reason, and the lesson, is to be appreciative of what you have, and not to be sad because you don't have what you want, but to be happy with what you have got! Jade Snow was appreciative of what she had learned from her father, and her family. Sometimes I would not appreciate what my parents have told me to do, but now, after reading Fifth Chinese Daughter, I am appreciative of what my family has taught me. (Well my parents, sometimes my brother, but no very often!) This novel unlike others that I have read, starts out slow, and then opens up into a wonderful book, which teaches you many lessons in life. These lessons are to pick long, life lasting friends, to get as best of education as you can (because it will be helpful in later years of your life), to keep your hopes up (because you just might succeed when you thought that you might not), and to always do your best (because you might get rewarded for it!) My overall impression of this novel is that when you start this book, you may think, "Oh my Gosh, what have I gotten myself into?" Well, my advice for you is to keep reading it because you will most likely enjoy the novel because of it's foreign lessons, and you get to know what it would be like if you were to live or be raised as a child growing up in the Chinese culture. I definitely would recommend this book to anyone who is willing to keep reading this book, and who is willing to learn a little bit more about the Chinese culture. It really is a good book, and after reading it, I am excited that I read a good book this summer, and I learned things at the same time! I would recommend reading this book as soon as you can get your hands on a copy, for I really enjoyed it!

3 out of 5 stars

The Fifth Chinese Daughter June 30, 2003
The book that I have recently read is called "The Fifth Chinese Daughter." This book is about a Chinese family raising a family in Chinatown, San Francisco. This is hard because of the lack of similarities between the Chinese culture and the American culture where they live. The main character in this book is Jade Snow. Jade Snow had three sisters (one died at birth) and a brother. As Jade got older Jade Precious Stone was born and they grew close together. Jade Snow did go to school, but no body really liked her and boys teased her. I hated how the boys teased her and got away with it because Jade Snow didn't tell anybody. She went to lessons after school to learn about China. Jade Snow was fascinated about China. She loved the traditions, cultures, everything about China. The Wong family lived in a building that was half a home and half a factory where Mr. Wong worked. As the years went by Jade Snow became interested in money. I think this is a typical teenage feeling. She started to work and wanted the money to attend college. Jade Snow's father would not help financially because she was a woman, so she was on her own. This makes me angry because I feel that all people should be treated equally no matter the race, religion, ethnic background or sex. Therefore, Jade Snow has to find a way to earn enough money to go to college. This shows allot of devotion because she is all on her own. This is a lesson to me. The lesson I have interpreted from this is: when you are all on your own don't give up because you can make it through if you trust yourself. That is exactly was Jade Snow did. I hope who ever reads this book will interpret a lesson and follow is as I have.

5 out of 5 stars

A sixth grade teacher March 24, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This book is one of the favorites of my childhood -- I still have the copy I acquired in 1963, when I was 12. I am thrilled to see that it is in print so that my students can read it. Fifth Chinese Daughter is an autobiography, not a novel, as a number of reviewers wrote. The story is so compelling, however, that I can understand why a young reader might think of fiction. Readers are treated to an inside look at a closed immigrant community. Chinese culture and language made assimiliation complicated, and not even desired by many Chinese families in the first half of the 20th century. It is easy to identify with Jade Snow's struggle to balance her quest for independence with the expectations, and respect for,her family and her culture. The universality of these conflicts presents readers with the opportunity to develop insight into their own lives, while Jade Snow's collision with American culture still applies to contemporary issues faced by first generation Americans.

4 out of 5 stars

The Fith Chinese Daughter September 3, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

The Fifth Chinese Daughter

The Fifth Chinese Daughter is a great book. It is about a girl and her life in China Town. The book showed me Chinese customs and how the Chinese eat, work and how their life was in the nineteen hundreds. I liked how the author showed the girl's life from the girl's point of view but also having it from the author's view. I also liked how the author showed how strict the daughter's father and mother were but as she accomplished things, her parents liked and trusted her more and more. Although the author did jump from one subject to a totally different subject from time to time, it was, a great book.
If I were to be rating novels that I have read, The Fifth Chinese Daughter would be 2nd on my list. It kept me wanting to read to find out what was going to happen next in the daughter's life. Other novels that I have read have been so extremely boring it took me weeks to finish one of them.
This was one of the greatest books that I probably will ever read. I would definitely recommend this novel to other kids who want a great book to read. You could probably make a few Chinese dishes if you read this book. It is a great book for showing people how a Chinese family suffered throughout the great depression and WWII but got through it with their small jean business and the help of their fifth daughter. The book also shows Chinese culture, which is great to learn because there are many Chinese people in the United States.

4 out of 5 stars Jade Snow's Challenges and Achievements August 31, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Jade Snow Wong was born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown during the early 1920's. Even though her family was not living in China, at the time, Jade Snow's mother and father still strongly enforced the Chinese ways. If Jade Snow went against her parent's wishes it resulted in a whipping from her father. Jade Snow, although just a child, had little if any time to play. Jade Snow was expected, as all Chinese children, to excel in academics and take a large role in the household chores. Jade Snow did these things and later succeeded in life due to hard work and determination. Jade Snow accomplished an amazing amount of things in life for a woman in the 1920's-30's. This unusual amount of accomplishments is what makes Jade Snow's story so intriguing.

Jade Snow had many accomplishments in life. Some of here accomplishments were achieved when she was going through school and some were achieved when she was through with school. One of Jade Snow's accomplishments was going through college and majoring in two subjects. Another one of Jade Snow's accomplishments was starting her own successful business. What I just listed were some of many of Jade Snow's accomplishments.

I enjoyed this book very much. I liked this book because it explained an individual's life in such great detail. This book taught me the Chinese way of life, which is very interesting. I was surprised to learn how differently the children of the Chinese culture are raised than the children of the American culture. For example the American children do not have to do nearly as much household chores as the Chinese children do. I would recommend this book to readers interested in biographies and other cultures.

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