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| name = Jade Snow Wong | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Huáng Yùxuě | birth_date = 21 January 1922 | birth_place = San Francisco, California | death_date = 16 March 2006 | death_place = San Francisco, California | occupation = | nationality = Asian American | period = 1950-1980 | genre = autobiography | subject = | movement = | notableworks = Fifth Chinese Daughter | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | website = }} Jade Snow Wong ({{zh|c=黃玉雪|p=Huáng Yùxuě}}) (January 21, 1922 – 16 March 2006) was a Chinese American ceramic artist and author of two memoirs.[1] She was given the English name of Constance, also being known as Connie Wong Ong. BiographyWong was born and raised in San Francisco; she was the fifth daughter of an immigrant family which grew to have nine children. She was raised with the traditional beliefs and customs of Chinese culture which her family and her elders imposed upon her. Her father forbade her to date and refused to pay for her college education. She was determined to get higher education, first attending San Francisco Junior College, and later Mills College, where she majored in economics and sociology in the hope of becoming a social worker in Chinatown.[2] Wong graduated from Mills College in 1942 with a hard-earned Phi Beta Kappa key. She worked as a secretary during World War II; she had discovered a talent for ceramics in a summer course at Mills and she joined a Ceramics Guild associated with the college.[3] When she began to sell her work from a shop in Chinatown, it quickly found popularity. Wong married the artist Woodrow Ong in 1950; they worked together on their art and later managed a travel agency together. Throughout her lifetime, Wong worked with many organizations including the San Francisco Public Library, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Chinese Cultural Center, the Chinese Historical Society of America, and Mills College. Wong was recognized and awarded by Mills College with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Arts in 1976. Wong died on March 16, 2006 at the age of 84 of cancer; she was survived by her two daughters, two sons,[4] and four grandchildren.[5] Literary WorkIn 1950, Wong published the first of her two autobiographical volumes, Fifth Chinese Daughter. The book described her troubles balancing her identity as an Asian American woman and her Chinese Traditions. The book was translated into several Asian languages by the U.S. State Department, which sent her on a four-month speaking tour of Asia in 1953. "I was sent," Wong wrote, "because those Asian audiences who had read translations of Fifth Chinese Daughter did not believe a female born to poor Chinese immigrants could gain a toehold among prejudiced Americans." Her second volume, No Chinese Stranger, was published in 1975.The book described her trip across Asia during her speaking tour and her visits to the People’s Republic of China. In 1976, Wong’s first volume, Fifth Chinese Daughter, was made into a half-hour special for public television. Artistic workWong's career in pottery took off after she convinced a merchant on Grant Avenue in Chinatown, San Francisco, to allow her to put her workshop in his store window.[6] Her ceramics were later displayed in art museums across the United States, including a 2002 exhibition at the Chinese Historical Society of America.[7] They were also displayed at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago (a one-woman show), the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, and the Cincinnati Art Museum, as well as shows in Omaha, Nebraska, and Portland, Oregon. In addition to these shows across the United States, Wong's ceramics have also been placed in the permanent collections of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Oakland Museum of California, the Joslyn Art Museum, and the International Ceramic Museum in Italy.[1] See also{{Portal|Literature}}
References1. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/19/BAGNDHQOO31.DTL |title=Jade Snow Wong - noted author, ceramicist |first=John |last=Wildermuth |date=March 19, 2006 |newspaper=The San Francisco Chronicle}} 2. ^{{cite web|last=Vermillion|first=Allecia|title=Jade Snow Wong|url=http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Jade_Snow_Wong|work=San Francisco Museum and Historical Society|publisher=FoundSF|accessdate=14 February 2012}} 3. ^Jade Snow Wong (1950/1965), Fifth Chinese Daughter, reprint, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, Ch. 27, "A Life Plan Is Cast", p. 273. 4. ^Jade Snow Wong (1950/1965), Fifth Chinese Daughter, reprint, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, "About the Author", p. [285]. 5. ^{{cite web|last=AC Team|title=In Memoriam: Jade Snow Wong|url=http://www.asianconnections.com/a/?article_id=756|work=AsianConnections.com|publisher=AsianConnections|accessdate=14 February 2012}} 6. ^Jade Snow Wong (1950/1965), Fifth Chinese Daughter, reprint, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, Ch. 28, "'The Work of One Day Is Gazed Upon for One Thousand Days'", pp. 278—280. 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.chsa.org/exhibitions/past_exhibits.php?event_id=75 |title=Jade Snow Wong: A Retrospective |work=Chinese Historical Society of America |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060421021620/http://www.chsa.org/exhibitions/past_exhibits.php?event_id=75 |archivedate=April 21, 2006}} Further reading
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