Jade Snow Wong, for example, was raised in Chinatown, San Francisco, by immigrant parents who operated an overalls factory. She said that it was only when she discovered ceramics at Mills College and began selling her pots out of a storefront—“a woman in the window, her legs astride a potter’s wheel, her hair in braids, her hands perpetually messy with sticky California clay”—that she felt contentment.36 Her autobiography, Fifth Chinese Daughter, was so successful that, in 1953, she was sponsored by the U.S. State Department to travel through Asia to help counteract concerns about anti-Chinese
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