Edith Eaton's autobiographical essay and her stories, of which "In the Land of the Free" is an example, show what it was to be a Chinese woman in the white man's world. ... In an essay entitled "The Chinese in America," Sui Sin Far laments western literary depictions of the Chinese that portray them as "unfeeling" and "custom-bound." ... Through this comparison Sui Sin Far decanters whiteness as the standard of what is "human," a move that is in fact central too much of her work, as Annette White-Parks has argued in an essay entitled "A Reversal of American Concepts of `Otherness.&#x...

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