Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian is a short autobiographical memoir by Sui Sin Far, pen name of Chinese British Canadian American writer Edith Maude Eaton.
Published in 1909, the account describes Far’s experiences with racism, including anecdotes stretching back to 1869, as a multiracial white and Chinese American woman in America.
[1] The story follows writer Sui Sin Far as she grows up, beginning with her childhood, including her earliest memories of others’ reactions to learning that she is Chinese.
She overhears comments from strangers who witness her family, encounters threats of violence, and faces questions about her home life and cultural habits.
The other disliked her fiancé from the beginning and only agreed to marry him after constant pestering, but she finally left him after he became uncomfortable with her association with other Chinese people and asked her to falsely claim that she was Japanese.