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Finding A Middle Way- Jade Snow Wong’s reinvented selfhood in Fifth Chinese Daughter

Finding A Middle Way: Jade Snow Wong’s reinvented selfhood in Fifth Chinese Daughter Abstract：In her autobiography, Fifth Chinese Daughter, Jade Snow Wong reinvents her bicultural selfhood by integrating traditional Chinese values and American values. Confucianism helps Jade Snow Wong achieve balance between her parents and individuality and fuels her successfully establish a subjective image in the biased American society . Key words：Fifth Chinese Daughter; Jade Snow Wong; balance 中图分类号： H319 文献标识码： A 文章编号：1672-1578（2013)01-0004-02 Fifth Chinese Daughter[1] is an inspiring autobiography that traces the life of Jade Snow Wong from childhood to adulthood and her family in San Francisco’s Chinatown between 1920s and 1940s. Jade Snow Wong’s story is a paradigm to reinvent her bicultural selfhood as a Chinese-American with the Chinese philosophy stressing harmony and balance. Traditional Chinese culture, Confucianism in particular, emphasizes harmony, avoiding extremes and conflicts. Confucianism finds its way in Wong?s family. As the first generation of Chinese-Americans and living a relative isolated life in Chinatown, Wong?s parents are firm advocates of Confucianism. Her father believes “Confucius had already presented an organized philosophy of manners and conduct” (FCD, 128). “Jade Snow had grown up reading Confucius” (FCD, 131), acquiring Chinese heritage from her parents. Subconsciously the childhood family education enables Jade Snow to value moderation and harmony as the soul of living. It works each time when “Jade Snow gains her independence through questioning, through confrontation, and through her ability and determination to make her own decisions” in the “frustrating, fragmented and confusing world.”[2] Jade Snow Wong?s independent selfhood is established through her quest for individual freedom and the process of fulfilling her dream to be recognized by the Western world. In “The Icicle in the Desert: Perspective and Form in the Works