Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan
Book Details
Author(s)Fleur Yano
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN / ASINB00BHN1YYU
ISBN-13978B00BHN1YY9
Sales Rank2,956,928
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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.

