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03065aam a2200445Ic 4500 001 23FFE9325D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200303010150 008 190610s2019 waua b s000 0aeng d 010 $a 2019948077 020 $a 0295746726 020 $a 9780295746722 020 $a 0295746734 020 $a 9780295746739 035 $a (OCoLC)1103983032 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OLE $d CUV $d OLE $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a a-kr--- $a a-kr--- 050 4 $a E184 K6 L445 2019 100 1 $a Lee, Mary Paik, $d 1900-1995 $e author. 245 10 $a Quiet odyssey : $b a pioneer Korean woman in America / $c Mary Paik Lee ; edited with an introduction by Sucheng Chan ; foreword by David K. Yoo 264 1 $a Seattle $b University of Washington Press $c [2019] 300 $a lx, 201 pages $b illustrations $c 23 cm 490 1 $a Classics of Asian American literature 500 $a "A Samuel and Althea Stroum book" 520 $a "Mary Paik Lee, born Paik Kuang Sun in 1900, left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea at the close of the Russo-Japanese War. Her father labored in the sugar plantations of Hawaii for a year and a half before taking his family to California, where Mrs. Lee has lived ever since. Though her father knew the comforts enjoyed by the educated traditional elite in Korea, after emigration he and his family shared the poverty stricken existence endured by thousands of Asian immigrants in early twentieth century America. Mrs. Lee's parents earned their living as farm laborers, tenant farmers, cooks, and janitors, and the family always took in laundry. Her father tried mercury mining until his health gave out. In their turn, Mrs. Lee and her husband farmed, sold produce, and managed apartment buildings. The author is engagingly outspoken and is extremely observant of her social and natural surroundings. Recounted incidents take on memorable life, as do the sharply etched settings of California's agricultural and mining country. She tells of singular hardship surmounted with resilience and characteristic grace. During much of her life Asian Americans were not treated as full human beings, yet she kept a powerful vision of what the United States could be"-- $c Provided by publisher 504 $a Includes bibliographical references 600 10 $a Lee, Mary Paik, $d 1900-1995. 650 0 $a Korean Americans $v Biography. 650 0 $a Korean American women $v Biography. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x History $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Korea $x History $x History $y 20th century. 700 1 $a Chan, Sucheng, $e writer of introduction. $e writer of introduction. 700 1 $a Yoo, David, $e witer of foreword. 830 0 $a Classics of Asian American literature 941 $a 2 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20210723014909.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200303020726.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=23FFE9325D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search