Books written by Maxine Hong Kingston
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
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.
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The Fifth Book of Peace
“I did the paperwork, took advantage of a littleknown loophole, a legacy after the death of the five Sullivan brothers." Edie Heinemann—“the real writer in the family,” Larry saysspeaks about writing letters to her husband every day ...
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To Be the Poet
Mah hai cup cup, say ngyeuk, yow say ngyeuk, Nay hoy nai, yah? Here's the translation of my very minor Chinese dialect: Hey, Third Grandfather. Hey, Fourth Grandfather. Where are you going? Horse shoes clippity-clopping four feet, ...
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China Men
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.
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The Literature of California: Native American beginnings to 1945
Born in Ohio and reared in Indiana , Ambrose Bierce came to California after the Civil War and stayed almost twenty ... most recently The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes ( 1985 ) and Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades by Oakley Hall ...
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The Literature of California, Volume 1: Native American Beginnings to 1945
Born in Ohio and reared in Indiana, Ambrose Bierce came to California after the Civil War and stayed almost ... most recently The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes (1985) and Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades by Oakley Hall (1998).
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With this book, the acclaimed author created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis ...
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
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.
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The Woman Warrior: China Men
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Here–for the first time in one volume–are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines...
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Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
In this collection of interviews, Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and her objectives. From the first, her books have hovered along the hazy line between fiction and nonfiction, memoir and imagination.
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The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic
Growing up in a changing America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story of two cultures and one trenchant, lyrical journey into womanhood.
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I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
The National Book Award-winning author of The Woman Warrior presents a series of versed observations on her experiences of aging, covering topics ranging from her literary activities and activist work to her views on her characters and a ...
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The Woman Warrior
Sensitive account of growing up female and Chinese-American in a California laundry.
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The Fifth Book of Peace
A memoir of the author's losses to fire and her work with Vietnam veterans also includes a novel about a Chinese American man and his wife who flee to Hawaii to evade the draft during the Vietnam War, only to work with Vietnam veterans.
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中国佬
本书是本描述了华裔人士在美国奋斗的力作,展现了高超的现代艺术创作技巧,具有超越民族与国界的文化内涵。
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孙行者
孙行者
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Hawai'i One Summer
From a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and numerous other honors, the essays in this collection provide readers with a generous sampling of Kingston’s exquisite angle of vision, her balanced and clear-sighted prose, and her ...
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China Men
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.
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To Be the Poet
" To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her ...