Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling house in the 1940s, when Maxine was born, and then a laundry where Kingston and her brothers and sisters toiled long hours. Kingston graduated with a bachelor's ... [... more]
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Charlie Chan Is Dead Revised
 the Asian American writer's bible: As an Asian American not-yet-published writer myself, I find this to be a incredibly valuable collection of some of the most talented Asian American authors today. As Jessica Hagedorn wrote in her introduction, for too [... more]
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Spring Moon: A Novel of China
A Wonderful Documentary of Fiction: The review by Jeanne-Scott thoroughly summarizes Spring Moon. It is difficult reading but well worth the time. I can only recommend this book to people who have a keen interest in East Asian cultures and history, as it [... more]
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Racial Castration - PB
says it like no one else: I agree largely and almost wholly with the previous and first independent reviewer of this book: Eng's 'Racial Castration' is at times, hyperacademic and perhaps even overly into the realm of philosophy and not social studies. [... more]
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Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary ...
Seminal, challenging, and at times iconoclastic: Repossessing The World: Reading Memoirs By Contemporary Women by Helen M. Buss (Professor of English, University of Calgary) is an eclectic anthology literary criticism of diverse memoirs of a variety of [... more]
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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China Men
waste of time - read AYN RAND!: I am writing this primarily to warn people from wasting their time with this book. I would write an exhaustive explanation of why this book is so bad, but I don't want to waste any more of my own time with this book. For [... more]
CDN$21.00
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The Woman Warrior, China Men
Author: Maxine Hong Kingston Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 305 EAN: 9781400043842 ISBN: 1400043840 Number Of Pages: 560 Publication Date: 2005-04-12 Release Date: 2005-04-12 [... more]
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To Be the Poet
Charming, if somewhat puzzling, little book: In this book, Maxine Hong Kingston proclaims to want to live the life of the poet. Working on her "longbook"--her thousand-plus page novel about Vietnam war veterans (her first novel since 1989's & [... more]
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The Fifth Book of Peace
Write a Happy Ending: I've stopped short of five stars only because I take issue with Kingston's efforts to find happy resolutions to terible events. The stories that emerge in her veterans' writing workshops tend, not surprisingly, to be painful, and to [... more]
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
Very Disappointing: I really do not want to write a bad review of Maxine Hong Kingston's work. Her "Woman Warrior" and "China Men" were wonderful. And she is a wonderful person. But that make me all the more disappointed with " [... more]
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Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
Author: Maxine Hong Kingston Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85212 EAN: 9780977333837 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0977333833 Number Of Pages: 614 Publication Date: 2006-10 [... more]
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