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Kingston Maxine Hong
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.
The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward. The author's America is a landscape of confounding white "ghosts"--the policeman ghost, the social worker ghost--with equally rigid, but very different rules. Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain.
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (Vintage International)
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In her singular voice—both humble and brave, touching and humorous—Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage to her arrest at a peace march in Washington. On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, she revisits her most beloved characters—Wittman Ah-Sing, the Tripmaster Monkey, and Fa Mook Lan, the Woman Warrior—and presents us with a beautiful meditation on China then and now. The result is a marvelous account of an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.
China Men
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The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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'A brilliant memoir...it is about being Chinese in the way A Portrait of the Artist is about being Irish; it is an investigation of soul, not landscape, its sources are dream and memory, myth and desire; its crises are the crises of a heart in exile from roots that bind and terrorize it...Maxine Hong Kingston writes with bitter and relentless love. Her voice, now, is as clear as the voice of Ts'ai Yen, who sang her sad, angry songs of China to the barbarians. It is as fierce as a warrior's voice, and as eloquent as any artist's' Jane Kramer, New York Times Book Review 'This is a delightful book...tells more than i ever imagined about the strangeness of being Chinese and a woman; it also gives a superb account of what it's like simply to be alive' Victoria Radin, New Society 'A strange, enchanting book...As a manual of self- discovery through the channels and terrors of one's own rejected communal memory, it is unbeatable' Guardian 'As a dream - of the "female avenger" - it is dizzying, elemental a poem turned into a sword...reimagining the past with such dark beauty, such precision and anger that you feel you have saddled the Tao dragon and see all through the fiery eye of God' John Leonard, New York Times 'A book of fierce clarity and orginality' Newsweek
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
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Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s.
The Fifth Book of Peace
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A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a Fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned--in the catastrophic Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.
Kingston Maxine Hong News
1 confirmed, 2 likely H1N1 cases at school - Stockton Record
Stockton Record, CA - May 22, 2009
1 confirmed, 2 likely H1N1 cases at schoolBy The Record STOCKTON - San Joaquin County public health officials reported Thursday that one student at Maxine Hong Kingston Elementary School has been confirmed to have the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, and that two more probably also have
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John Sandford - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - May 10, 2009
John SandfordMaxine Hong Kingston "The Woman Warrior" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1976) Kingston carved out the niche for literary memoir by combining the first-person narrative and verity of autobiography with the scene-setting and sensory detail of fiction, enriched by her
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Short Takes: 50 Summer Memoirs for the Beach, Backwoods, or Flu Bunker - Library Journal
Library Journal, NY - May 08, 2009
Library JournalShort Takes: 50 Summer Memoirs for the Beach, Backwoods, or Flu BunkerAnyone who wonders what obstacles an immigrant must overcome will be fascinated by this assimilation story; Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior complements it nicely.—LM Wagner, Cheryl. Plenty Enough Suck To Go Around. Citadel: Kensington.
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