"The Woman Warrior"

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This paper reviews the novel "The Woman Warrior" by Kingston, focusing on the issues of women in culturally different and foreign scenarios. The paper presents a background on the author Maxine Hong Kingston, as a woman born to a Chinese family in California and surrounded by Chinese culture and people. This, the writer believes, reflects in her writing. The paper presents the issues Kingston wrote of including women in Chinese culture and the mixing of the American and Chinese traditions.

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"Maxine Hong Kingston was born in 1940 in Stockton, California, to a Chinese immigrant family, and she grew up and lived in a Chinese community that followed the customs and tradition of its native land. The expectation for women in traditional Chinese society was as a wife or a slave, though in Kingston's family this expectation was considered an underachievement. Kingston herself would often be bombarded by negative comments directed towards her and her sister because the people in this more traditional Chinese community did not recognize the value of girl children."

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