15. Sui Sin Far — Mrs. Spring Fragrance with Victoria Namkung

Author and journalist Victoria Namkung is our guest on this week’s show.

Author and journalist Victoria Namkung is our guest on this week’s show.

In this week’s episode, Amy and Kim have a conversation about Sui Sin Far and her wonderful short story collection, Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912), with journalist and author Victoria Namkung, who has her Master’s Degree in Asian American Studies from UCLA. Sui Sin Far, the pen name of Edith Maude Eaton, was a journalist and writer of Chinese and British descent who moved to the U.S. and began writing articles about what it was like to live as a Chinese woman in a white America. Learn more about Eaton and find out why, if you haven’t already, you should find a spot on your bookshelf for the still-very-relevant Mrs. Spring Fragrance


Discussed in this episode: 

Victoria Namkung 

These Violent Delights by Victoria Namkung

The Things We Tell Ourselves by Victoria Namkung

Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance

Anne Boyd Rioux in Episode 11

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Original Fairytales of The Brothers Grimm

A Japanese Nightingale by Onoto Watanna (Winifred Eaton)

Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eton

Nisei’s Daughter by Monica Sone

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Diana Chang

Jessica Hagedorn

Bharati Mukherjee

Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia

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