Table of Contents

Introduction to the 1989 Edition
Author's Note to the Original Edition

1. The World Was New
2. The World Grows
3. Forgiveness from Heaven
4. Grandmother and Her World Back Home
5. Lucky to Be Born a Chinese
6. Uncle Kwok
7. Learning the Be a Chinese Housewife
8. The Taste of Independence
9. Saturday's Reward and Sunday's Holiday
10. "One Who or That Which Slips"
11. With Eyes on China
12. Cousin Kee
13. A Person as Well as a Female
14. Girl Meets Boy
15. A Measure of Freedom
16. Marriage Old and New Style
17. An Unexpected Offer--and a Decision
18. "Learning Can Never Be Poor or Exhausted"
19. Musicians On and Off Stage
20. She Finds Her Hands
21. A Summer of Excitements
22. Sending the Ships to War
23. "A Little Child Shall Lead Them"
24. Rediscovering Chinatown
25. The Sanctum of Harmonious Spring
26. Alas, She Was Born Too Tall
27. A Life Plan Is Cast
28. "The Work of One Day Is Gazed Upon for One Thousand Days"

Reviews

A sensitive and revealing story of a Chinese American girl’s coming of age in America. It is unique.
*New York Herald Tribune*

A fascinating narrative, not only because of the courage and humour which shine through every page of the book, but also because it shows how the members of a typical Chinese family can adapt themselves to American conditions and take their part in the national life of the United States without losing the essentials of the cultural heritage which they rightly prize.
*Times Literary Supplement*