This repository contains a curated collection of the published works of Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) in Asciidoctor format.

Sui Sin Far
Sui Sin Far (Chinese: 水仙花; pinyin: Shuǐ Xiān Huā, born Edith Maude Eaton; 15 March 1865 – 7 April 1914) was an author known for her writing about Chinese people in North America and the Chinese American experience. "Sui Sin Far", the pen name under which most of her work was published, is the Cantonese name of the narcissus flower, popular amongst Chinese people.
— Wikipedia

More information about Sui Sin Far can be found in her biography in the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy’s Voices from the Gaps archive.

Contents

Links to the works that have been included in the project so far are listed below with accompanying downloads in different formats:

New works and formats will be added here as they become available.

Purpose of the project

The writings of Sui Sin Far are surprisingly difficult to find in one place, considering that they are all in now in the public domain. The works that are available are often stored in cumbersome formats that make them inconvenient to read or repurpose — for example, they may comprise several pages in the middle of a 300 page, 118 Mb scanned PDF in the Internet Archive, or in non-semantic HTML format scattered across various different university websites and personal homepages.

The goals of this project are:

  1. To provide a curated collection of known works by Sui Sin Far together in one place

  2. To store the content in semantic Asciidoctor format, preserving information useful for both human readers and machines

  3. To provide a number of generated derivative formats from the Asciidoctor texts to demonstrate the flexibility and resilience of this approach

  4. To maintain a database of annotations to the texts to enhance the reading experience for modern readers and enable rich (and perhaps eventually interactive) annotation in generated formats

  5. To allow scholars, readers, and others to easily correct, annotate, and improve the texts

  6. To explore different possibilities for the way that digital humanities texts are stored, encoded, presented, and transformed

  7. To provide all of the tools needed to create the derivative file formats, with the aim of creating reproducible builds of the semantic Asciidoctor text content.

Formats

Examples of available generated formats include:

  • Rich and responsive HTML5, carefully optimized for readability on a variety of screen and device sizes, based on the design work of Edward Tufte

  • Clean, readable PDFs generated by Asciidoctor PDF

  • Booklet-style printable PDFs, designed to be printed on any printer and folded together (no staples required)

  • Epubs, designed to be viewed on an ebook reader

  • MOBI, for use on Amazon Kindle devices

  • DocBook (planned), for conversion to XML and print book publication

Publication details

Title Date Publisher/Publication Source URL

A Chinese Ishmael

1899

The Overland Monthly, Vol. 34, No. 199, pp. 43-49

Internet Archive

A Love Story From the Rice Fields of China

1911

New England Magazine, Vol. 45, pp. 343–345

University of Virginia Library

An Autumn Fan

1910

New England Magazine, Vol. 42, pp. 700-702

Internet Archive

Chan Han Yen, Chinese Student

1912

New England Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 462-466

Internet Archive

The Bird of Love

1910

New England Magazine, Vol. 43, pp. 25-27

Internet Archive

Credits

License

Public Domain / CC0.

All of the published work in this repository is believed to be in the public domain as the author died in 1914.