Becoming Sui Sin Far is an impressive achievement in research, recovery, argument, and editing. It will allow scholars of Edith Eaton to reexamine the author's life and work through an expanded oeuvre that repeatedly crosses boundaries of gender, geograp The pieces reproduced here persuasively support a number of Chapman's assertions, offered in a well-written introduction, about the ways Sui ... Read moreSin Far's expanded oeuvre should affect our understanding of her as an author and of her work. Taken together, th The book offers an intimate portrait of Eaton's development as a journalist, a stenographer, a writer of fiction and travelogue, and one of North America's most nuanced commentators on Chinese diaspora, cross-racial affiliations, transnational crossings, Chapman has performed an exceptional work of recovery ... [that] has added 150 uncollected texts by Eaton-more than doubling Eaton's known oeuvre to over 260 texts. Becoming Sui Sin Far raises pertinent questions about the meaning of citizenship, the cross A major contribution that will be greeted with great enthusiasm by those familiar with Eaton's work and captivate the attention of new readers. Jean Lutes, Villanova University A polished and nuanced study that will make an extraordinary intervention into studies of Edith Eaton and scholarship about Asian North American writers. Mary Chapman has done a heroic act of recovery work, and developed a very strong argument about the significance of Eaton's writing. Martha Curtter, University of Connecticut Show Less