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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.
Kingston is interested in presenting Chinese American history from its own perspective, presenting us with the men's views of American culture—the strange language with its incomprehensible alphabet, the violence and rigidity of missionary Christianity—and of their new communities, often made up of a mixture of Chinese regional backgrounds that would never have happened in China but ...
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.
Maxine Hong Kingston (湯亭亭, born 1940, China/US, f/nf) William Henry Giles Kingston (1814–1880, England, f/ch) Hans E. Kinck (1865–1926, Norway, f/d/nf) Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882, Germany/Switzerland p/d/nf) Galway Kinnell (1927–2014, US, p) Jeff Kinney (born 1971, US, ch) Junji Kinoshita (木下順二, 1914–2006, Japan, d)
Gwen Stefani Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for CMT Gwen Stefani couldn’t be prouder of her 17-year-old son, Kingston. “This kid is such a good songwriter, and out of nowhere,” Stefani, 54 ...
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.
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