Context
Kushi Fusako would do this after facing backlash for her work.
What is quit writing?
In An Old and Established Name, this character longs for the return of the Fortune Silk Store back to its original practices.
Who is Xin Dezhi?
In An Old and Established Name, this store would initially keep a low profile and market themselves through respectability only.
What is the Fortune Silk Store?
In Memoirs, this describes the condition mothers of successful sons typically face.
What is confined to their homes?
In Memoirs, the characters are forced to abandon their original culture in order to succeed in Japanese society.
What is cultural assimilation?
Kushi Fusako initially had this career prior to being a writer.
What is a teacher?
In Memoirs, this character is forced to hide his background to pursue and maintain a successful business.
Who is the uncle?
This city is Ryukyu's second largest city, despite economic issues.
What is S City?
In An Old and Established Name, Xin Dezhi claims he can do this after all the apprentices have left.
What is a five clerks' work?
In the Fusako's defense, she claims that the students are focusing too much on silencing this instead of focusing on the oppression of Okinawans.
What is women's equality?
Lao She would travel here to teach Mandarin.
What is England?
In An Old and Established Name, this character from the Fortune Silk Store often uses deceit in order to push customers to buy products.
Who is Manager Zhou?
In An Old and Established Name, this store would buy out the Fortune Silk Store.
What is the Heaven Silk Store?
In An Old and Established Name, Manager Zhou claims that Japanese cloth was from this country in order to sell them during the boycott.
In Memoirs, characters are burdened by potential backlash for expressing their heritage, and are often seen as lower class in Japanese society.
What is discrimination?
Lao She's ideas would stem from this cultural movement in China.
What is the May Fourth Movement?
In An Old and Established Name, this character from the Fortune Silk Store would try keep the store low profile, despite the lack of customers.
Who is Manager Qian?
In Memoirs, this place is told to the uncle's wife to avoid her from knowing where he was actually going.
What is Beppu City (Kyushu)?
In Memoirs, the narrator compares this to describe the Ryukyuans living in the mainland.
What are mushrooms?
In An Old and Established Name, the Fortune Silk Shop begins turning a profit after ditching reliance on respectability and focusing on bringing in customers and selling anything.
What is modern vs. traditional business practices?
Kushi Fusako's Memoirs appeared in this magazine.
What is the Fujin Kōron?
In Memoirs, this character went into insanity after the boy she was taking care of died.
Who is the uncle's father's wife?
In An Old and Established Name, this store is located across the street from the Fortune, and prospered despite the narrator describing it as a "circus"
What is the Village Silk Shop?
In An Old and Established Name, Xin Dezhi would use this argument to persuade the business owners to bring Manager Qian back.
What is equal emphasis on name and profit?
In An Old and Established Name, Xin Dezhi felt that this theme was lost after Manager Zhou was placed to run the store.
What is integrity?