667 Sui Sin Far (with Victoria Namkung) | My Last Book with Samantha Rose Hill
The History of Literature · Jacke Wilson / The Podglomerate
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Show Notes
Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914) grew up in unusual circumstances: her father was an English merchant who traveled to China on business, and her mother was a formerly enslaved tightrope walker and human knife-throwing target who traveled all over the world with an acrobatic troupe. The eldest daughter among fourteen children, Eaton mostly grew up in Montreal, then relocated to America, where she became famous under the pen name Sui Sin Far. Today, her journalism and fiction, mostly chronicling the lives of Chinese men and women living in America, are impressive for their insight and humor. In this episode, Jacke talks to novelist and scholar Victoria Namkung about An Immortal Book: Selected Writings by Sui Sin Far, for which she wrote the forward. PLUS Samantha Rose Hill (Hannah Arendt: A Critical Life) discusses her choice for the last book she will ever read.
Additional listening:
- 512 Hannah Arendt (with Samantha Rose Hill)
- 529 Ten Thousand Things and the Asian American Experience (with Shin Yu Pai)
- 66 A Conversation with Novelist Shawna Yang Ryan
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