Wong tells of her realization that the very strict upbringing of her home, devoid of outward expressions of love, was not the norm in mainstream American society. As a child, Wong frequently puzzled over the differences between her home life in San Francisco’s Chinatown, where her parents owned a home-based garment factory, and the wider American world. I read it slowly, savoring each anecdote of this honest and in some ways charming coming-of-age story. I thoroughly enjoyed the hours I spent reading this book. In some ways, the book reminded me of the “Little House” books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (also written in third person), partly because Wong spends a lot of time describing the food and customs she grew up around, and also because she gets to the heart of the matter in a succinct, simple, authentic way. The third person point of view gives the memoir a formal feel, yet Wong’s simple, direct language is very accessible.
In written Chinese, prose or poetry, the word ‘I’ almost never appears, but is understood” (p. Wong chose to write in third person, rather than first person, because of Chinese habit, as she explains: “The submergence of the individual is literally practiced. So I gotta keep it all bottled up 'til the day I go postal and commit 27 murders and 1 suicide.Fifth Chinese Daughter, first published in 1945, was one of the first memoirs by a Chinese-American. I'm really tempted to think they have an extra gland for spit.Īnd of course, I can't say anything, lest I look like a bigot, due to my lack of skin color or vagina.
Why do the Asians have to spit so much in the bathroom? Its not mentioned once in The 5th Chinese daughter, The Good Earth, Joy Luck Club or anything else I've read that would give me any insight into traditionalist Chinese culture. Is leaving shit alone against someone's religion? Yes you truly deserve that big squishy chair for working 3mph, while I work 20mph on a hard stool with no complaint.Īnd the spitting. I work a minimum wage job at a clothing factory which is about 75% women, 67% foreign people, and 89% irritaing as balls.ĭo you always have to walk 2mph? Always gotta stand in the middle like an idiot? You gotta eat at the locker room when there's a sign that syas don't do it? don't you know what a cafeteria is? You really gotta pee on the toilet seat?(you can't expect me to believe they don't know what a urinal is) I work at four different machines, so when leave one spot for 2 minutes, someone takes my scissors or whatever.
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