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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 Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales.
China Men is a 1980 collection of "stories" by Maxine Hong Kingston.It is a sequel to The Woman Warrior with a focus on the history of the men in Kingston's family. It won the 1981 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book is the third book written by Maxine Hong Kingston, and was published in 1989.The story follows Wittman Ah Sing, an American graduate of University of California, Berkeley of Chinese ancestry in his adventures about San Francisco during the 1960s.
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The Fifth Book of Peace is a 2003 book by Maxine Hong Kingston, published by Knopf. [1] Part-fiction, part-memoir, the book was written in response to Kingston's house fire in 1991 and additionally contains her thoughts about war, specifically the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, among others.
For example, Maxine Hong Kingston has been criticized for her claim in The Woman Warrior that, in Chinese, the character for "woman" is also the character for "slave." Critics of Kingston claim that while 奴 (slave) contains 女 (woman), it is only as a radical to indicate the pronunciation of the character.
Xu Xi (許素細) – English language novelist based in Hong Kong Geling Yan (严歌苓) – novelist and screenwriter Gene Luen Yang (楊謹倫) – graphic novelist, whose book American Born Chinese was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award