Background
It was published as Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman. She was born to a family that had seen better times in Penglai in Shandong province. Her father, once a scholar, sold baked goods to support his family.
It was published as Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman. She was born to a family that had seen better times in Penglai in Shandong province. Her father, once a scholar, sold baked goods to support his family.
She contracted smallpox as a child. Her feet were bound to keep them small according to the customs of the time. She began begging to support her family.
Later, she became a peddler. She told Pruitt her story during the 1930s. The family remained in Beiping during the Japanese invasion but Pruitt did not know how they fared later.
