How long does it take to read Fifth Chinese Daughter?
Jade Snow Wong
Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong takes about 4 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1950. 246 pages, about 67,650 words. Written for children.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
No well brought up Chinese girl refers to herself in the first person, so the author tells her charming story in the approved Chinese fashion. How, as the fifth daughter of a hard-working Chinese tailor, she and her sisters lived in a San Francisco basement, cutting, sewing, and sorting hundreds of men's overalls for the wholesale market. How she went to school and later, in face of parental opposition, to college. Of her quiet persistent struggle to use her knowledge and talents which finally lead to her father's acceptance of her as an Independent person. But besides making us acquainted with her own attractive personality, Jade Snow Wong gives fascinating descriptions of Chinese ceremonies, festivals and customs, such as the treatment of the bride after the wedding ceremony, and the even more surprising one of Gathering the Bones.
Subjects: Potters, Biography, Chinese Americans, Pottery, Pottery, chinese, Emigration and immigration
