| Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan Contributor(s): Jan, Flora Belle (Author), Yano, Fleur (Editor), Daly, Saralyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0252033809 ISBN-13: 9780252033803 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $45.54 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2009 Annotation: The inner life of a sensitive and ambitious woman--an exceptional Chinese American flapper, writer, and journalist |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2008021802 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.36 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume collects the letters written over a thirty-year period by a second generation Chinese American woman, Flora Belle Jan (1906-50). Born in California to immigrant parents and educated at Berkeley and the University of Chicago, Jan raised three children with her husband Charles Wang and worked as a journalist in both the United States and China. Written during the years 1918-48, these letters offer unique insight into the social and political situation of educated, middle-class, professional Chinese American women in the early twentieth century. Literate, candid, and charming, they convey the intellectual curiosity and perspicacity of a vivacious and ambitious woman while tracing her engagement with two different worlds. |