Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan [Hardcover]

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.

The inner life of a sensitive and ambitious woman--an exceptional Chinese American flapper, writer, and journalist

Fleur Yanois a professor emerita of physics and astronomy at California State University, Los Angeles, and a daughter of Flora Belle Jan.Saralyn Dalyis a professor emerita of English at California State University, Los Angeles, and the author of the biographyKatherine Mansfield.Judy Wuis an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University and the author ofDoctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity.

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 husblӷ