 | Shirley Lim, Amy Ling - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 398 pages
...Anglo-Canadian. One sister, May, is believed to be the Eurasian described in "Leaves" in this fashion:5 Her face is plastered with a thick white coat of paint...eyes and the whole expression of her face is changed. . . . Living for many years among the working class, she had heard little but abuse of the Chinese.... | |
 | Sui Sin Far - Fiction - 1995 - 320 pages
...feel quite at home. This fact of itself proves to me that prejudice can be eradicated by association. I meet a half Chinese, half white girl. Her face is...in the East, and at the age of eighteen came West in answer to an advertisement. Living for many years among the working class, she had heard little... | |
 | Annette White Parks - Authors, Canadian - 1995 - 296 pages
...white girl," whose "face is plastered with a thick white coat of paint . . . eyelids and eyebrows . . . blackened so that the shape of her eyes and the whole expression of her face has changed." This young woman "pass[ed] as one of Spanish or Mexican origin" and only told her white... | |
 | Linda Wagner-Martin, Cathy N. Davidson - Fiction - 1999 - 612 pages
...feel quite at home. This fact of itself proves to me that prejudice can be eradicated by association. I meet a half Chinese, half white girl. Her face is...in the East, and at the age of eighteen came West in answer to an advertisement. Living for many years among the working class, she had heard little... | |
 | Todd Vogel - History - 2004 - 212 pages
..."half Chinese, half white girl" whose "face is plastered with a thick white coat of paint." The woman's "eyebrows are blackened so that the shape of her eyes...and the whole expression of her face is changed." In America, the woman had heard so much abuse of the Chinese that she tried to hide any features that... | |
 | Sidonie A. Smith, Julia Watson, Sidonie Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 473 pages
...feel quite at home. This fact of itself proves to me that prejudice can be eradicated by association. I meet a half Chinese, half white girl. Her face is...in the East, and at the age of eighteen came West in answer to an advertisement. Living for many years among the working class, she had heard little... | |
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I meet a half Chinese, half white girl. Her face is plastered with a thick white coat of paint and her eyelids and eyebrows are blackened so that the shape of her eyes and the whole expression of her face is changed. She was born in the East, and at the... 