On March 16, 2006 (February 17, 2006 in the lunar calendar), Chinese writer Huang Yuxue passed away. Huang Yuxue was born in Jinshan Chinatown in 1922. She is a writer, a pottery artist, and is probably the first Chinese female writer in the United States. Her masterpiece "Five Girls"(1945) describes the experience of growing up in a family of nine children, and how she struggled and grew up in the United States as an American woman and a descendant of an immigrant family. It also describes her traditional China education at home and Western education methods outside. Under these two completely different education methods, how she overcame and adapted to various cultural conflicts without regrets, and still felt proud to be China. It was later translated into multiple languages and published. In 1976, on the 200th anniversary of the founding of the United States, public television station PBS produced a half-hour television series based on her novel and screened it across the United States. In 2004,"Five Girls" was translated into Chinese and published in China and distributed by "Yilin Publishing House". The Chinese title is "Five Chinese Girls." The English version of the book was also published by Shanxi Education Press in China. Huang Yuxue has been active in many societies and institutions for many years, such as the San Francisco Public Library, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Chinese Cultural Center in San Francisco, the Chinese American Historical Society, and her alma mater, Mills College, which awarded her honorary doctorate in 1976. Huang Yuxue passed away on March 16, 2006 in San Francisco, the city where she was born and raised, at the age of 84.