水仙花是评论界公认的美国华裔文学先驱。她采取女作家常用的“大题小作”策略,以恋爱、婚姻、家庭和儿童生活为创作题材,在描写爱情、亲情和友情的同时,着意表现破坏这些感情的种族、性别、阶级关系和霸权势力,尤其是针对华人的种族主义和东方主义话语。在当时猖狂排华的政治气候下,作为欧亚裔混血儿的水仙花敢于彰显自己的中国血统,献身于用笔墨为华人抗争的事业,她的反抗精神、正义感和社会批判意识激励着后来涌现的一波又一波的美国华裔作家。 Daffodils is a recognized American literary pioneer in the critics. Taking the strategies commonly used by female writers as her theme of love, marriage, family and children’s life, she describes love, affection and friendship at the same time as expressing the racial, gender and class relations that undermine these feelings And hegemonies, especially racist and orientalist discourse aimed at Chinese people. Under the rampant exclusion of China in the political climate, daffodils, as European-Asian mixed breeds, dared to demonstrate their Chinese descent and devoted themselves to the cause of using ink and brush to fight Chinese. Her rebellious spirit, sense of justice and sense of social criticism inspired later Wave after wave of American Chinese writers.