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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: 122609

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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One of the best novals I read all summer August 22, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

The Fifth Chinese Daughter is an excellently written novel about a Chinese American girl growing up in San Francisco's Chinatown. When this book arrived in the mail the last thing I wanted to do was read it when I could play my X-box and watch T.V. After a week I finally got around to reading a chapter and was surprised to find myself reading it all day. Unfortunately I didn't pick it up again until I was in Sedona with my Dad. There I read all but fourteen pages. It wasn't for another week until I finished.
This story was expertly written and fun to read. Despite my early protests I enjoyed hearing about a young oriental girl change from a well-disciplined Chinese daughter growing up in Chinatown to an artist who finally achieved the recognition from her family she had longed for since childhood. It gave a sense of evolution, struggle, and triumph, as the book progresses. It explains a child's need for acceptance, respect, and material riches as Jade Snow Wong progresses through school, odd jobs, collage, and adulthood. This would have been my favorite book all summer had it not been for reading The Grey Ghost, but i'm not here to review that so i'll go on.
This book is obviously a book I would recommend to others because it always has the main character striving to survive in a stereotypical world. It shows Jade Snow's personality being that the harder it got the harder she would try. This is shown many times in the book, like when she went to the employment agents and found jobs in house working. Also when she got into Mills Collage, that she wanted more then just to clean houses and end up as a house wife like she had been raised and become something more.
Unlike other novels I've read this summer this one sticks out by its great writing style and many twists. An example of witch is when she gets a job at a shipyard and works for what seems might be the whole war when she gets only one job option, to be a secretary.I shouldn't give away what happens naext for fear of not getting my review published. Her accomplishments finally drive her family to recognize her. The book has many unexpected twists and turn and was a joy to read, so i recomend that you read it to.

5 out of 5 stars

An Inspiring Story August 22, 2002
The Fifth Chinese Daughter is an excellently written noval about a Chinese American girl growing up in San Fransiscos Chinatown. When this book arrived in the mail the last thing I wanted to do was read it when I could play my X-box and watch T.V. After a week I finaly got around to reading a chapter and was surprised to find myself reading it all day. Unfortanently I didn't pick it up again untill I was in Sedona with my Dad. There I read all but forteen pages. It wasn't a for another week untill I finished.
This story was expertly written and fun to read. Dispite my early protests I enjoyed hearing about a young oriantle girl change from a well disaplined chinese daughter growing up in Chinatown to an artist who finally achived the recognition from her family she had longed for since childhhod. It gave a sense of evolution, struggle, and triumph, as the book progresses. It explanes a childs need for aceptece, respect, and material riches as Jade Snow Wong progresses through school, odd jobs, collage, and adulthood.
This book is obviosly a book I would recomend to others because it always has the main charecter striving to survive in a sterotypical world. It shows Jade Snow's personality being that the harder it got the the harder she would try. This is shown many times in the book, like when she went to the employment agentsy and found jobs in houseworking. Also when she got into Mills Collage, that she wanted more then just to clean houses and end up as a house wife like she had been raised and become somthing more.
Unlike other novals i've read this summer this one sticks out by it's great writing style and many twists. An example of witch is when she gets a job at a shipyard and works for what seems might be the whole war when she gets only one job option, to be a secretary. She turns it down when she gets an idea to shape pottery and then to sell it. Her acomplishments as an artist finaly drive her family to recognize her. The book has many unexpected twists and turn and was a joy to read.

5 out of 5 stars

An Inspiring Noval August 22, 2002
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

The Fifth Chinese Daughter is an excellently written novel about a Chinese American girl growing up in San Francisco's Chinatown. When this book arrived in the mail the last thing I wanted to do was read it when I could play my X-box and watch T.V. After a week I finally got around to reading a chapter and was surprised to find myself reading it all day. Unfortunately I didn't pick it up again until I was in Sedona with my Dad. There I read all but fourteen pages. It wasn't for another week until I finished.
This story was expertly written and fun to read. Despite my early protests I enjoyed hearing about a young oriental girl change from a well-disciplined Chinese daughter growing up in Chinatown to an artist who finally achieved the recognition from her family she had longed for since childhood. It gave a sense of evolution, struggle, and triumph, as the book progresses. It explains a child's need for acceptance, respect, and material riches as Jade Snow Wong progresses through school, odd jobs, collage, and adulthood.
This book is obviously a book I would recommend to others because it always has the main character striving to survive in a stereotypical world. It shows Jade Snow's personality being that the harder it got the harder she would try. This is shown many times in the book, like when she went to the employment agents and found jobs in house working. Also when she got into Mills Collage, that she wanted more then just to clean houses and end up as a house wife like she had been raised and become something more.
Unlike other novels I've read this summer this one sticks out by its great writing style and many twists. An example of witch is when she gets a job at a shipyard and works for what seems might be the whole war when she gets only one job option, to be a secretary. She turns it down when she gets an idea to shape pottery and then to sell it. Her accomplishments as an artist finally drive her family to recognize her. The book has many unexpected twists and turn and was a joy to read.

3 out of 5 stars

The Fifth Chinese Daughter August 21, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I thought that the fifth Chinese daughter by Jade Snow Wong was an excellent book about a Chinese family growing up in china town San Francisco. In the book you learn that Jade Snow's parents are accustom to their Chinese ways and will not change them, because of this they demand that the children are extremely obedient. In the event that the children do something wrong they are beaten.
At the age of eleven Jade Snow was taught to be a Chinese housewife. Every day after a long hard day at school Jade Snow went straight to her mother to collect the usual fifty cents for groceries. With her fifty cents Jade Snow could buy a half-pound of pork, a small chicken, three bunches of Chinese greens, and three whole rex soles or sand dabs. These items were used for tonight's dinner and tomorrows breakfast and lunch. Along with the chore of getting groceries Jade Snow also had to do the cooking. To cook such a simple thing as a bowl of rice she had to go through many steps to meet her parents approval: 1.measure the rice and put it in a pot 2.put a little water in the pot and rub the rice 3. Rinse the rice six times and scrub it three times 4. Add cold water and leave the rice undisturbed at the bottom 5. Put the rice over a burner with the lid tightly in place 6. Turn the burner on high until the water starts to boil never lift the lid off the rice to see how it is doing 7 after the rice starts boiling turn the burner very low when the rice was almost a steam rose up strongly. If you want to learn the rest of Jade Snows story read the book.
I did not particularly like this book because of its genera. I like stories about witches or detectives, and the Fifth was more of a family story. Although I did not like the book I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes family stories or learning about other cultures. Compared to other books I have read The Fifth Chinese Daughter was an extremely slow story, but it would be great for a person who likes family stories.

4 out of 5 stars

Fifth Chinese Daughter Review August 19, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I enjoyed Fifth Chinese Daughter becasue I learned alot about how other people live and by what rules other children abide by.
What I liked about this book was seeing through the eyes of a person whose age I have experienced or will experience with a different lifestyle. There were different punishments, rules, dinners, and jobs involved with Jade Snow's (main character) life than in my life. I got to see what obstacles and opportunities Jade Snow had that I have or haven't had. What I didn't like about this book was the beginning. This book started way too slowly. From reading the beginning I got the impression tht this was going to be a dull life story with no plot.
This novel, compared to others, I think very good once you read past the beginning. It gave me a taste of other lifestyles and was very interesting. It also had a different style of writing then what I was used to. I had never before read a life story like Fifth Chinese Daughter.
My overall impression of this novel was a very good impression. I really enjoyed this book and it was a pleasure to sit down and read it. I would definetly recommend this book to anybody, but especially to young girls around my age because of the impression it gave me. As I have already said, this book broadened my knowledge of other lifestyles and opportunities.

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