These remarkable tales rank among the first works of fiction published by a Chinese-American author. The daughter of an English shipping merchant and his Chinese wife, Edith Maude Eaton grew up in Canada and settled in the United States. She pursued a career in journalism under the pen name Sui Sin Far. A mixed-heritage woman in a culture rife with anti-Chinese sentiment, she was a pioneer in expressing the struggles and triumphs of the immigrant experience. In these deceptively simple fables of family life, Sui Sin Far offers revealing views of life in Seattle and San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century. Her observations of the tensions of cultural assimilation reflect the difficulties of maintaining old customs in a new environment as well as the challenges that accompany new freedoms. This collection features the title story, in which a young Chinese woman acts as a bridge between immigrant parents and their Americanized children; "In the Land of the Free," an ironically titled account of suffering inflicted by discriminatory immigration laws; "The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese"; "The Three Souls of Ah So Nan"; "The Sing Song Woman"; and other captivating tales.

Mrs. Spring Fragrance: A Collection of Chinese-American Short Stories (Dover Literature: Short Stories)

Literature & Fiction

Far, Sui Sin

United States

Dover Publications

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Mrs. Spring Fragrance (Masterworks of Literature)

Reference

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914) was an author best known under the pseudonym Sui Sin Far. She had to leave school at a young age to work in order to help support her family. Nonetheless, the children were educated at home and raised in an intellectually stimulating environment that saw both Edith and her younger sister Winnifred (1875- 1954), who wrote under the pseudonym Onoto Watanna, become successful writers. Eaton began writing as a young girl; her articles on the Chinese were accepted for publication in Montreal's English-language newspapers, the Montreal Star and the Daily Witness. She asserted her Chinese heritage and wrote articles that told what life was like for a Chinese woman in white America. Her fictional stories about Chinese Americans, first published in 1896, were a reasoned appeal for her society's acceptance of working-class Chinese at a time when the United States Congress maintained the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882- 1943). Her works include: A Chinese Ishmael (1899), An Autumn Fan (1910), The Bird of Love (1910) and A Love Story From the Rice Fields of China (1911).

A Chinese Ishmael and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Dodo Pr

The Collected Writings of Sui Sin Far (Mint Editions (Voices From API))

Inspired by the author’s experience living among Chinese Americans in the United States, The Collected Writings of Sui Sin Far highlights stories of prejudice, perseverance, and the soul of a proud and vibrant community. 
Characterized by her wisdom and cross-cultural knowledge, Mrs. Spring Fragrance is one of Sui Sin Far’s most beloved characters and can be found throughout the collection of stories. 
“In the Land of the Free” is a powerful story inside this collection on a Chinese immigrant who is separated from her young son due to insufficient paperwork. Exploring the struggles of this woman to reclaim her son, discrimination and hardships faced by Chinese Americans due to the Chinese Exclusion Act are exposed, illuminating the restrictive immigration policies which continue in modern America. 
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this Mint Editions version of The Collected Writings of Sui Sin Far is a classic of Chinese American literature reimagined for modern readers.\nFrom the Back Cover\nA young Chinese immigrant endeavors to soothe her heartbroken neighbor, whose parents have arranged for her to marry a man she does not love. A Chinese American family struggles to navigate a prejudiced American society. The Collected Writings of Sui Sin Far is a collection of fiction and nonfiction by Sui Sin Far.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Mint Editions

Mrs. Spring Fragrance

Mrs. Spring Fragrance (Mint Editions (Voices From API))

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is one of the key texts in American women’s fiction and also a rallying cry for feminism. Since its original printing in 1892, it has been routinely anthologized in collections of women’s literature, American literature, and textbooks. This volume gathers nine other equally momentous stories by a diverse group of renowned American women authors who changed the world with their compelling tales. These ten stories testify to the power of the imagination to create personal transformation and political change.\nContributions by: 
Djuna Barnes 
Kate Chopin 
Sui Sin Far 
Zora Neale Hurston 
Nella Larsen 
Gertrude Stein 
Elizabeth Stoddard 
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 
Edith Wharton\nCharlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was an American author of novels, short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She was also a utopian feminist who gained fame and developed a social circle of like-minded activists and writers of the feminist movement as she lectured widely for social reform. She is most known today for her semi-autobiographical short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” 
Ulrich Baer earned a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Yale. A widely published author, he is University Professor at New York University, and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships. He has written numerous books on poetry, photography and cultural politics, and edited and translated Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Dark Interval, Letters on Life, and Letters to a Young Poet. He hosts leading writers and artists on the “Think About It” podcast. In the Warbler Press Contemplations series, he has published: Nietzsche, Rilke, Dickinson, Wilde, and Shakespeare on Love. 
“’The Yellow Wallpaper’…was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.” —Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories of Liberation

HUrston, Zora Neale

CHOPIN, KATE

BARNES, Djuna

GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS

Larsen, Nella

Stoddard, Elizabeth

WHARTON,EDITH

STEIN, Gertrude

Warbler Press

Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914) published hundreds of works (journalism, fiction, essays) in over 60 journals and magazines across Canada, the United States, and Jamaica-often under her pen name, Sui Sin Far. Eaton is best known for her short stories exploring the everyday lives of Chinese immigrants living in North America under hostile conditions codified through the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. She published her first and only book, the story collection Mrs. Spring Fragrance, in 1912. An Immortal Book brings together a selection of stories and essays showcasing her skill at rendering place, constructing characters, and exploring ideas about identity, race, gender, and politics with sharp humor, honesty, and sensitivity. Iconic stories (such as "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" and "An Inferior Woman") appear alongside groundbreaking autobiographical essays ("Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian") and compelling lesser-known works ("Woo-Ma and I") from different points in Eaton's career. This volume from Cita Press, which features a cover by Shuhua Xiong and a foreword by Victoria Namkung, celebrates Eaton's legacy as a significant contributor to Asian North American, feminist, and transnational literature. An open access (free to read and share) digital edition is available at citapress.org.

An Immortal Book: Selected Writings by Sui Sin Far

Namkung, Victoria

Eaton, Edith

CITA Press

Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Tales (Graphyco Annotated Edition)

Independently published

Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings: Chinese American Experience

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