AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Sketch, Asian Americans, Jade Snow Wong
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American promise of leaving behind tradition and entering into modern life. Fcd (195), in its autobiographical style, was sociological, and therefore popular. The move from first person to third person. I is subjective; distancing from 3rd person changes the conversation. Possibility of objectivity -> moves from singular to a broader sociological sense. If we follow her through her life, it would give us news from the front line; sociology of the chinese in america. Limits of female education in china vs. american opportunity (14-15) You can earn nothing from your own pictures. Father"s ties to china (traditional) vs. jade"s coming of age in america (modern) American ways were not only generally and vaguely different from their chinese ways, but that they were specifically different, and the specific differences would involve a choice of action. She re-emphasizes a point she has been making throughout; the clear differences between american and chinese ways.
