Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman, a 1945 book by Ida Pruitt, an autobiography in the form of rewritten interviews with Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai (Old Mrs. Ning; 1867 – after 1938, an illiterate Chinese village woman.
When she was fifteen, she was married through an arranged marriage to an opium addict who sold all the family's possessions to support his habit.
After several years, Ning moved back with her husband, who had quit his habit and she gave birth to a son.
[3] The anthropologist Francis L. K. Hsu welcomed the book in 1946, saying that Pruitt "deserves hearty congratulations from all her readers, who should include not only the social scientist, but the layman as well."
Her attitude was "no different from that of the forefathers of present day Americans who prayed to God but kept their powder dry."