Mrs. Spring Fragrance

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Mrs. Spring Fragrance
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Title page for Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912)
Author Sui Sin Far
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story, Asian-American literature
Publisher A. C. McClurg
Publication date
1912
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages347 pp (first edition)

Mrs. Spring Fragrance is a popular short story collection by Sui Sin Far, pen name of Chinese-British-Canadian-American writer Edith Maude Eaton. The work is notable for being "the earliest book of fiction published in the United States by an author of mixed Chinese and white descent." [1] Although the stories in the collection were written in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they were not compiled into a single book until 1912. The original publisher was A. C. McClurg and Company of Chicago. A new scholarly edition of the book, based on the McClurg edition, was released in October 2011 by Broadview Press.

Contents

The stories are divided into two halves, "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" for adults, and "Tales of Chinese Children" for children. Set in Seattle and San Francisco, they reflect the struggles and joys in the daily lives of Chinese families in North America. Particularly poignant are the stories delineating the cultural conflicts of Eurasians and recent immigrants. In "In the Land of the Free", Eaton shows the suffering inflicted by discriminatory immigration laws.

Contents

From Tales of Chinese Children:

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References

  1. Eaton, Edith Maude (2011). Hsuan L. Hsu (ed.). Mrs. Spring Fragrance. Peterborough: Broadview Press. p. 9. ISBN   978-1-55481-027-7.
  2. Eaton, Edith Maud (1912). Mrs. Spring Fragrance. Cornell University Library. Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co.
  3. Porter, Caroline (August 24, 2015). "The Illegible Pan: Racial Formation, Hybridity, and Chinatown in Sui Sin Far's "'Its Wavering Image'"". Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies. 6 (1). ISSN   2154-2171.
  4. Eaton, Edith Maude (2011). Hsuan L. Hsu (ed.). Mrs. Spring Fragrance. Peterborough: Broadview Press. p. 33. ISBN   978-1-55481-027-7.