In the striking original decorative cloth. Arguably the first work of Chinese-American fiction. As noted above, Eaton, daughter of a British merchant and his Chinese wife, began writing in her early 20s while living in Canada, but did not produce stories with a Chinese theme until two years before she moved to San Francisco. The first half of this book concerns “Mrs. Spring Fragrance” an “Americanized” Chinese woman selling curios in Seattle, while the second half are her “Tales of Chinese Children” –a collection of short stories which first appeared in 24 different American magazines. Eaton, at a time of rampant anti-Chinese racist stereotypes, as her biographer notes, “courageously chose to write of the Chinese in North America as humorous, tragic, charming, and loving - in short, as human.”