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By Mary Paik Lee. Ed. by Sucheng Chan. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. ix + 201 pp. Cloth, $20.00, ISBN 0-295-96946-6. Paper, $10.95, ISBN 0-295-96969-5.)
Mary Paik Lee was born Kuang Sun Paik in 1900. At age five, to ensure the family's survival in the face of imperial Japan's expanding military and political presence in Korea, she and her parents and her elder brother emigrated to Hawaii, where her Presbyterian minister father worked as a contract laborer on a sugar plantation. A year later, they moved to Riverside, California, where her mother cooked for thirty single Chinese males working in the citrus groves. One of three girls and seven boys, an exhausted Lee fought to stay in school while working for her room and board and managed to complete one year of high school before falling victim to the...