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Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese: 湯婷婷; [2] born Maxine Ting Ting Hong; [3] October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a B.A. in English in 1962. [4] Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese ...
The specific genre of The Woman Warrior has been disputed due to Kingston's blend of perspectives, specifically traditional Chinese folktale and memoir. With this mixture, Kingston tries to provide her audience with the cultural, familial, and personal context needed to understand her unique position as a first-generation Chinese-American woman.
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Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story (video) KQED interview on the death of writer Carlos Fuentes. 2012; KQED interview on the life and legacy of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone. 2018; KQED interview on the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. 2019; Whatever Happened to Stephen Talbot, "Leave it to Beaver"'s Gilbert? We Asked Him!
Princess Michael of Kent is opening up for the first time about the unexpected death of her son-in-law, Thomas Kingston, who died in February at age 45. On Dec. 17, Princess Michael, 79, broke her ...
Kingston wrote The Woman Warrior and China Men as one and would like them to be read together; she decided to publish them separately in fear that some of the men's stories might weaken the feminist perspective of the women's stories. [2] The collection becomes what A. Robert Lee calls a "narrative genealogy" of Chinese settlement in the United ...
Thomas Kingston and Lady Gabriella Kingston at Wimbledon in 2019 (Philip Toscano/PA) Lady Gabriella is the King’s second cousin. They are both great-grandchildren of King George V.
The Tradition of Chinese American Women's Life Stories: Thematics of Race and Gender in Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior By: Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. pp. 252–67 IN: Culley, Margo (ed.); American Women's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory. Madison: U of Wisconsin P; 1992. xiii, 329 pp. (book ...