Abstract
This paper examines Maxine Hong Kingston's book "China Men" as a reflection of the history of Chinese immigrants in California. The paper discusses the author's mixture of personal experiences with fact and myth.

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"In Maxine Hong Kingston's "China Men" she recounts the experiences of her Chinese immigrant family in California, mixing her personal memories with fact and myth to create an account that while not technically altogether historically accurate in terms of every fact and detail, is nevertheless representative of the experience of Chinese immigrants as a whole in California. Kingston's book is more than a memoir but not quite a history book either. Instead, it provides a perspective on..."

Tags:Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men, Transcontinental Railroad, emasculation, racial, immigrants, California

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This paper explains that Wendy Ho scrutinizes Maxine Hong Kingston's book "The Woman Warrior" in her essay, "Mother Daughter Writing and the Politics of Race and Sex in Maxine Hong Kingston's 'The Woman Warrior". The author points out that Ho shows how, in this book, especially the first chapter 'No Name Woman', the various gender and racial confines in Kingston's life affect her relationship with her mother and Kingston's own identity formation. The paper also relates the way that Ho believes that the process of story telling in 'No Name Woman' helps free Kingston to break the oppressions of both her Chinese culture and the patriarchal system in which she lived.

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"Through the story of her aunt, Kingston's mother warns her daughter "now that you have started to menstruate, what happened to her could happen to you. Don't humiliate us. You wouldn't like to be forgotten as if you had never been born. The villagers are watchful." This quote exemplifies Ho's point that those in the Chinese society were especially fearful of women appearing to masculine, or at least, not appearing feminine; the survival of Chinese life depended on the maintenance of these strict roles."

Tags:aunt, subversive, truth, fiction, reclaiming

Abstract
This paper discusses the Chinese-American culture of emigrants by using Maxine Hong Kingston's book "The Woman Warrior." Summarizing the book and giving several excerpts, the paper talks about the assimilation and integration process and challenges a female Chinese emigrant goes through to find a life in the United States. The paper also reviews Kingston's mix of reality and fantasy seen through a folktale like point of view to emphasize her point of conflict for the female Chinese emigrant's struggle to adapt with a new culture and religion.

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"Chinese-American culture, especially that of emigrants and first generation children, is not shaped solely on the religious experiences of China, nor is it shaped solely on the American culture that they have come into. It is a melange of both. However, the mixture is not a perfectly homogenized blend. Different aspects of both fight to be the top priorities in the emigrant's/first-generation's life. The thought of assimilation is seen to be the goal of the emigrant, yet the soul still yearns for the spiritual side of things. The Emigrants hide their inner-self from the world, abandoning their past and shames of the China, and yet, real or not, the voice of their ancestors rings inside their hearts and the feelings for China and the Chinese tradition run rampant."

Tags:cultures, immigration, assimilation

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This paper summarizes Kingston's novel about the relationship between past and present, mother and daughter. The paper explains how the novel is a book about self-discovery and that, through the juxtaposition of the social and political circumstances of the mother and daughter, as well as their personal experiences, the stories in Kingston's book lead the narrator in the novel to evolve into a confident woman with a better understanding of who she is.

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"The complexities involved with mother daughter relationships are seen in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. In this combination of fact and fiction Kingston engages us by demonstrating the difficulties a Chinese-American girl encounters as she tries to relate to her Chinese born mother. Through a series of tales, the narrator discovers a her mother's character, which is inextricably connected to her past. The sharp contrast between mother and daughter exemplifies the socioeconomic and sociopolitical roles and constructs of its historical era. It is through the experience of her mother and those who came before her, that the narrator is able to embrace her present and future fully."

Tags:culture, male-dominated, tradition, heritage, contrast, life, ghosts, ancient, belief, system

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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the book, "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts", by Maxine Hong Kingston. Specifically, it discusses why Kingston chooses to tell the stories of her mother and other female relatives, combining genres of autobiography, fantasy, fiction, and mythology, in order to illuminate her own identity.

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"In order to understand her relatives, and ultimately understand herself, Maxine Hong Kingston records the stories of her family in amusing and fanciful tales that point out the gap between the Chinese culture of her mother, and the American culture of Maxine and her siblings. Kingston's story is more than simply the age-old contest between mother and growing daughter, it is a struggle to understand a culture she is part of, and yet has never known. Often, her mother's actions make no sense to Maxine, living a comfortable life in the U.S. She has no understanding of hunger and want, and does not understand her mother's obsession with food, waste, and eating. She writes, "We'd have to face four- and five-day-old leftovers until we ate it all. The squid eye would keep appearing at breakfast and dinner until eaten. Sometimes brown masses sat on every dish."

Tags:brave, orchid, non-chinese, invisible, spirit, second-generation, folklore, necessity

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The paper stresses that the book is not written from a Chinese viewpoint, but rather from the view of a first-generation, Chinese-American daughter of immigrant parents. The author points out that it is also a story of an adolescent girl's journey into adulthood, the story of how one person integrates all elements of her life, including her relationship with her parents and other family members, into the composite of experience known as personality. The paper describes the relation of mother and daughter and states that the wear and tear on such a relationship must have been difficult for both the mother and the daughter; however, the result was an independent, strong, and valuable person.

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"The aunt, the no-name woman, becomes the ideal of courage, honor, and rebelliousness by refusing to name the father of her child and taking blame as well as responsibility. Taking the child with her into death is interpreted by the narrator as an act of love. Her mother reinforces (instills) this belief when she tells her, "Carrying the baby to the well shows loving " Mothers who love their children take them along. It was probably a girl; there is some hope of forgiveness for boys." "

Tags:generation, immigrant, adulthood, relationship, mother

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This paper summarizes and compares the memoirs of Frank McCourt and Maxine Hong Kingston. The paper looks at how each of the authors expresses him/herself and the motivation for writing their stories.

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"In their memoirs, The Woman Warrior and Angela's Ashes, Maxine Hong Kingston and Frank McCourt, respectively, present unique and complete views of worlds that widely diverge from the sort of lifestyles and experiences that are enjoyed by the average citizens of the United States of America. Part of the most simple reason for this is their "outsider" statues. As an immigrant, in Frank McCourt's case, and as the child of immigrant parents, in Maxine Hong Kingston's case, both memoirs are narratives of lives marked by travel, travail, and cultural differences that have an enormous and massive impact upon their authors' lives."

Tags:cultural, heritage, socialization, process, american, society, hardships, chinese, irish

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Frederick Douglass, in his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, and Maxine Hong Kingston, in her autobiography The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, tell of their struggle against and victory over the chains of racism and sexism.

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"Frederick Douglass, in his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, and Maxine Hong Kingston, in her autobiography The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, tell of their struggle against and victory over the chains of racism and sexism. Both Douglass and Kingston eventually find the freedom, identity and self-worth they seek, and both stories prove that the ideologies behind their oppression--that black men and Chinese women are inferior to whites--are not only bigoted but utterly wrong. Kingston and Douglass emerge from their oppression as shining examples of humanity at its most intelligent and determined to live in freedom.

Douglass struggles against his literal slavery and turns himself into an educated and independent human being. Kingston is ..."

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"This study will examine Maxine Hong Kingston's works China Men and Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book. The thesis of the study will be that, in moving from the earlier China Men to the later Tripmaster Monkey, Kingston's work came to transcend the question of what it means to be Chinese, or Chinese-American, or American, and to focus instead on what it means to accept one's circumstances and to boldly forge one's personal and cultural identities based on the reality of those circumstances.


The argument of the study will be, then, that Kingston's earlier book focuses on the Chinese traditions which served as the foundation for the culture of Chinese-Americans, while the later book develops the character of one individual who has melded Chinese and American traditions to such a degree that something new emerged, something which, perhaps, transcends both..."

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The stories "The Sky Is Gray" by Ernest J. Gaines and "Angel of the Candy Counter" by Maya Angelou tell similar tales of young children visiting the dentist, and in both cases issues of a racist society are expressed in the seemingly simple act of going to the dentist to fix an aching tooth. Both stories are told in the first person and have the aura of a memory (which in Angelou's case it definitely is). In both stories, blacks are shown at a disadvantage at every turn, and the trip to the dentist is an occasion in each case to show ways in which blacks are made into second-class citizens. Another important theme is the need for strong parents, especially for the young black child facing the reality of racism in America.

Angelou's story comes from her autobiography and is in keeping with the overall tone of that work, a book that gains.."