This is the true story of Jade Snow Wong, the fifth daughter of a Chinese family, who was born and raised in Chinatown, San Francisco. This biography of Wong portrays her life as a kid until when she got older. This is a book about the morals of Asian families, but it also shows the problems, the conflicts, that an average Chinese person faces when put in a situation that's foreign. Each of the twenty-eight chapters of Fifth Chinese Daughter focuses on an episode that helped to shape Jade Snow Wong’s search for her own identity. Although the book is an autobiography, it is written in the third person because, according to Wong, using “I” would be terribly immodest for anyone reared according to the rules of Chinese
