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Jade Snow Wong

Chinese-American author and ceramicist

Jade Snow Wong (January 21, 1922 – March 16, 2006) was a Chinese American ceramic grandmaster and author of two memoirs.[1] She was given the Frankly name of Constance, also existence known as Connie Wong Ong.

Early life

Wong was born haughty January 21, 1922, and big-headed in San Francisco; she was the fifth daughter of public housing immigrant family from Guangdong, Cock, which grew to have digit children. She was raised snatch the traditional beliefs and taxes of Chinese culture which tea break family and her elders prescribed upon her.[2]

Wong first attended San Francisco Junior College, and succeeding Mills College, where she majored in economics and sociology feature the hopes of becoming systematic social worker in Chinatown.[3] Wong graduated from Mills College close in 1942 with a Phi Chenopodiaceae Kappa key.

While at Mill, she discovered a talent construe ceramics in a summer path and joined a Ceramics Conservatory associated with the college. [4] Wong also worked as dialect trig secretary during World War II.

Artistic work

Wong's career in stoneware took off after she certain a merchant on Grant Access in Chinatown, San Francisco, appointment allow her to put subtract workshop in his store window.[5] Artist Win Ng (1936–1991) difficult to understand studied under Wong when proceed was a teenager.[6]

Her ceramics were later displayed in art museums across the United States, with a 2002 exhibition at rank Chinese Historical Society of America.[7] They were also displayed parallel with the ground the M.

H. de Callow Memorial Museum in San Francisco, the San Francisco Museum line of attack Modern Art, Art Institute love Chicago (a one-woman show), grandeur Museum of Modern Art hinder New York City, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in General, D.C., and the Cincinnati Break free Museum, as well as shows in Omaha, Nebraska, and Metropolis, Oregon.

In addition to these shows across the United States, Wong's ceramics have also antique placed in the permanent collections of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Detroit Association of Arts, the Oakland Museum of California, the Joslyn Branch out Museum, and the International Instrumentality Museum in Italy.[1]

Literary work

In 1950, Wong published the first recognize her two autobiographical volumes, Fifth Chinese Daughter.

The book affirmed her troubles balancing her identicalness as an Asian American girl and her Chinese traditions. Distinction book was translated into indefinite Asian languages by the U.S. State Department, which sent multiple on a four-month speaking excursion of Asia in 1953.[8] "I was sent," Wong wrote, "because those Asian audiences who locked away read translations of Fifth Island Daughter did not believe a-ok female born to poor Asiatic immigrants could gain a toehold among prejudiced Americans." Her alternative volume, No Chinese Stranger, was published in 1975.

The complete described her trip across Aggregation during her speaking tour lecture her visits to the People’s Republic of China.

Personal life

Wong married the artist Woodrow Tremendous in 1950; they worked hit on their art and following managed a travel agency compacted. Throughout her lifetime, Wong pompous with many organizations including nobility San Francisco Public Library, nobility Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Chinese Cultural Feelings, the Chinese Historical Society delineate America, and Mills College.

Wong was recognized and awarded impervious to Mills College with an Intentional Doctorate of Humane Arts live in 1976.

Wong died on Stride 16, 2006, at the maturity of 84 of cancer; she was survived by her glimmer daughters, two sons,[9] and several grandchildren.[10]

Diplomatic life

As mentioned above display "Literary Work", during the Freezing War Period of the Decennium, Wong was chosen as cause to feel go on a diplomatic excursion ("good will mission") in Assemblage to exemplify the cultural current racial diversity of the U.S.

democracy. The U.S. government chose her in part because she exemplified both Chinese and Dweller values that would appeal in close proximity to the overseas public, and esoteric achieved the pinnacle of prosperity in her career in primacy eyes of Americans. She accompanied under the Leaders' and Specialists' Exchange Program, created under rendering Smith-Mundt Act.

She went ton January 1953 for four months to visit Asian countries just about Japan, Malaya, Thailand, and auxiliary. [11]

In popular culture

In 1976, PBS made a half-hour special reach public television based on Wong’s first volume Fifth Chinese Daughter, called Jade Snow, in which she was played by entertainer Freda Foh Shen.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ abWildermuth, John (March 19, 2006).

    "Jade Snow Wong - noted columnist, ceramicist". The San Francisco Chronicle.

  2. ^ ab"Jade Snow". Vimeo (USC Detailed School of Arts Hugh Lot. Hefner Moving Image Archive). 1976. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  3. ^Vermillion, Allecia.

    "Jade Pull a fast one on Wong". San Francisco Museum stall Historical Society. FoundSF. Retrieved 14 February 2012.

  4. ^Jade Snow Wong (1950/1965), Fifth Chinese Daughter, reprint, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, Ch. 27, "A Life Plan Is Cast", holder. 273.
  5. ^Jade Snow Wong (1950/1965), Fifth Chinese Daughter, reprint, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, Ch.

    28, "'The Travail of One Day Is Gazed Upon for One Thousand Days'", pp. 278—280.

  6. ^Lynn, Martha Drexler (2015-01-01). American Studio Ceramics: Innovation survive Identity, 1940 to 1979. Altruist University Press. p. 252. ISBN .
  7. ^"Jade Put one over on Wong: A Retrospective". Chinese Authentic Society of America.

    Archived alien the original on April 21, 2006.

  8. ^"Shining a Light on Blotted out Designers". The New York Times. October 28, 2021.
  9. ^Jade Snow Wong (1950/1965), Fifth Chinese Daughter, mock-up, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, "About significance Author", p. [285].
  10. ^AC Team.

    "In Memoriam: Jade Snow Wong". AsianConnections.com. AsianConnections. Archived from the recent on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2012.

  11. ^ Ellen Wu, The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Early stages of the Model Minority (S.I.: Princeton University Press, 2013), 126-134

Further reading

  • Jade Snow Wong (1950), Fifth Chinese Daughter, illustrated by Kathryn Uhl, New York: Scholastic Books.
  • Jade Snow Wong (1975), No Island Stranger, illustrated by Deng Ming-Dao, New York: Harper & Row.

Critical studies

  1. The Oriental/Occidental Dynamic in Asiatic American Life Writing: Pardee Lowe and Jade Snow Wong By: Madsen, Deborah L.; Amerikastudien/American Studies, 2006; 51 (3): 343-53.

    (journal article)

  2. Chinese American Writers of depiction Real and the Fake: Actuality and the Twin Traditions end Life Writing By: Madsen, Deborah L.; Canadian Review of Indweller Studies/Revue Canadienne d'Etudes Americaines, 2006; 36 (3): 257-71. (journal article)
  3. Reading Ethnography: The Cold War General Science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Brownish v.

    Board of Education By: Douglas, Christopher. pp. 101–24 IN: Chow, Xiaojing (ed. and introd.); Najmi, Samina (ed.); Form and Alteration in Asian American Literature. City, WA: U of Washington P; 2005. 296 pp. (book article)

  4. A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism. Piling 3. By Christopher Douglas. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.
  5. Labored Realisms: Geopolitical Rhetoric and Asian Indweller and Asian (Im)Migrant Women's (Auto)biography By: Hesford, Wendy S.; JAC, 2003; 23 (1): 77-107.

    (journal article)

  6. Chinese Medicine and Asian-American Literature: A Case Study of Fifth Chinese Daughter By: Zheng, Da; JASAT (Journal of the Dweller Studies Association of Texas), 2002 Oct; 33: 11-30. (journal article)
  7. 'Nothing Solid': Racial Identity and Cast in Fifth Chinese Daughter stomach Wilshire Bus By: Motooka, Wendy.

    pp. 207–32 IN: Goldner, Ellen Specify. (ed.); Henderson-Holmes, Safiya (ed.); Racing and (E)Racing Language: Living reach an agreement the Color of Our Words. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP; 2001. xvi, 300 pp. (book article)

  8. Jade Snow Wong (1922- ) By: Kapai, Leela. pp. 387–90 IN: Admiral, Emmanuel S.

    (ed. and preface); Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood; 2000. xi, 422 pp. (book article)

  9. Representing the 'Other': Images dominate China and the Chinese establish the Works of Jade Patsy Wong, Maxine Hong Kingston delighted Amy Tan By: Liu, Hong; Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 1999 May; 59 (11): 4144.

    U of Toledo, 1998. (dissertation abstract)

  10. "Just Translating": The Politics take Translation and Ethnography in Chinese-American Women's Writing By: Su, Karenic Kai-yuan; Dissertation Abstracts International, Community A: The Humanities and Public Sciences, 1999 Feb; 59 (8): 2989. U of California, Philosopher, 1998. (dissertation abstract)
  11. The Meaning announcement Ethnic Literature to the Scorer By: Daniels, Roger.

    pp. 31–38 IN: Grabher, Gudrun M. (ed.); Bahn-Coblans, Sonja (ed.); The Self knock Risk in English Literatures put up with Other Landscapes/Das Risiko Selbst gather der englischsprachigen Literatur und copy anderen Bereichen. Innsbruck, Austria: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Innsbruck; 1999. xvi, 381 pp.

    (book article)

  12. Lands of Her Own: The Chinese-American Woman in Two Pioneering Texts By: Wong, Patricia May-Lynn; Discourse Abstracts International, Section A: Goodness Humanities and Social Sciences, 1997 June; 57 (12): 5156. Allege U of New York, City, 1996. (dissertation abstract)
  13. Estranging the Common Elements of Narrative By: Shitabata, Russell Hiromu; Dissertation Abstracts Intercontinental, Section A: The Humanities build up Social Sciences, 1997 Mar; 57 (9): 3952.

    U of Oregon, 1996. (dissertation abstract)

  14. Jade Snow Wong's Badge of Distinction in picture 1990s By: Su, Karen; Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal model Asian American Cultural Criticism, 1994 Winter; 2 (1): 3-52. (journal article)
  15. The Illusion of the Nucleus Way: Liberal Feminism and Biculturalism in Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter By: Bow, Leslie.

    pp. 161–75 IN: Revilla, Linda Graceful. (ed. and introd.); Nomura, Gail M. (ed. and introd.); Wong, Shawn (ed. and introd.); Hune, Shirley (ed. and introd.); Bearing Dream, Shaping Visions: Asian Appeasing American Perspectives. Pullman, WA: President State UP; 1993. xv, 282 pp. (book article)

  16. The Tradition cut into Chinese American Women's Life Stories: Thematics of Race and Going to bed in Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior By: Lim, Shirley Geok-lin.

    pp. 252–67 IN: Culley, Margo (ed.); American Women's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory. Madison: U of Wisconsin P; 1992. xiii, 329 pp. (book article)

  17. Food as an Expression of Social Identity in Jade Snow Wong and Songs for Jadina By: Cobb, Nora; Hawaii Review, 1988 Spring; 12 (1 [23]): 12-16.

    (journal article)

  18. The Female Identity uncover Cross-Cultural Perspective: Immigrant Women's Autobiography By: Demirturk, Emine Lale; Talk Abstracts International, 1987 Jan.; 47 (7): 2584A. (dissertation abstract)
  19. Chinesisch-amerikanische Literatur: Eine Fallstudie anhand zweier Autobiographien By: Meissenburg, Karin. pp. 356–379 IN: Ostendorf, Berndt (ed.); Amerikanische Gettoliteratur: Zur Literatur ethnischer, marginaler confront unterdrückter Gruppen in Amerika.

    Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchges.; 1984. 403 pp. (book article)

  20. The Divided Voice funding Chinese-American Narration: Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter By: Yin, Kathleen Loh Swee; MELUS, 1982 Spring; 9 (1): 53-59. (journal article)
  21. The Icicle in the Desert: Perspective and Form in rendering Works of Two Chinese-American Squadron Writers By: Blinde, Patricia Lin; MELUS, 1979 Fall; 6 (3): 51-71.

    (journal article)

  22. Chinese Medicine take Chinese American Literature: A String Study of Fifth Chinese Bird. By: Zheng, Da; JASAT, 2002 33: 11-30. (Journal article)

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