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SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 22, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- "Fifth Chinese Daughter" author Jade Snow Wong has died in San Francisco at age 84.
Wong died at her home Thursday of cancer, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
"Fifth Chinese Daughter," the first of two memoirs, was a re-telling of Wong's life with her eight siblings and immigrant parents in San Francisco.
Her professional name, Jade Snow, was a translation of her Chinese name but she was known to her friends as Constance, the newspaper said.
She was in her mid-20s when she wrote her first book, which was in third person because Chinese tradition frowns on first-person narratives as being immodest, the Times said.
Her second book, "No Chinese Stranger," was published in 1975.
She also created prize-winning pottery that was exhibited in museums nationwide and ran a travel agency with her husband, Woodrow Ong.
She was the topic of a PBS special in 1976 called "Jade Snow."
Wong is survived by two sons, two daughters and four grandchildren.
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