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• W2073001490 abstract "BOOK REVIEWS125 Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America, by Mary Paik Lee; edited with an introduction by Sucheng Chan. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1990. Ix + 201 pp. $20.00. Paperback $10.95. This is a valuable book inasmuch as it is the only in-print book-length autobiographical account of a Korean immigrant among those seven thousand who came to the United States between 1903 and 1905. Mary Paik arrived with her parents in Hawaii in 1905 as a child of five and in the following year moved to California. (There is a book describing the experiences of an adult Korean immigrant, but it is out of print.) In many respects her background and early experiences were typical. Her family was from an urban area (P'yöngyang), where her well-educated father worked as a tailor, and was one of the few Christian families of that time in Korea. In 1904 they were uprooted as a result of the Russo-Japanese War and were forced to move to Inch'ön, where they lacked employment opportunities. It was in these straits that they responded to advertisements from the Hawaiian sugar planters. But after arriving in Hawaii they stayed on the plantation for only a year, being unaccustomed to agricultural labor, and then they moved to California , where wages were higher. In California they linked up with the much smaller number of Korean immigrants (about one thousand), who nevertheless included such luminaries as An Ch'ang-ho and Syngman Rhee. While Mary's mother picked oranges, her father again took up tailoring and preached the gospel on the side. Mary and her brother helped by doing laundry and cleaning houses, all while attending public schools. (It was this section which I found most interesting.) In 1919 she was married to a Korean who had originally gone to Mexico. Together they operated fruit and vegetable stands in Anaheim and later prospered as rice farmers. In that sense, small business served them in much the same way it has served the more recent Korean immigrants to the United States. One of the striking, almost quaint, features of Lee's account is the unbridled optimism flowing through the pages. Even though her family endured racist discrimination and barely made ends meet, there is hardly a word of complaint. She really believed that the United States was the land of opportunity. The moral of her book, much like that of a Horatio Alger story, is that hard work and abiding faith in the goodness of others will reap rewards, as will the fair play that (sometimes) characterizes the American socioeconomic system. To wit: Everything is possible if they work hard enough (p. 129). And indeed, by the end of World War Two, middle-aged Mrs. Lee and her husband were able to help support several families in addition to their own. While there is an occasional hint of ethnic solidarity among Koreans, Mexicans, and blacks, her account in the main seems more akin to that of an upwardly mobile member of a majority group. One is really not surprised that she writes, America is the only place in the world where people of all races can live in peace and harmony with one another (p. 113). 126BOOK REVIEWS A word is in order about the editor and her contribution. Sucheng Chan, best known for her award-winning book on rural Chinese in California, is largely responsible for retrieving this sixty five-page manuscript and turning it into a book. She has checked some of the facts mentioned in the manuscript and found only minor discrepancies. More valuable, however, is her twenty-page bibliographic essay on Koreans in the United States (which originally appeared in the Immigration History Newsletter). Also of value is her thirty-page introductory essay, which places the immigrant experience in the context of late Yi dynasty history and the experiences of other Asian immigrants in the United States. In general, this is a highly competent essay, marred only slightly by some minor inaccuracies: Mary Paik Lee was born in 1900, not 1905; it was the Kaehwadang, not the Independence Club (founded in 1896), which attempted the 1884..." @default.
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