China Men (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Maxine Hong
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1903-1980
- Setting: China and the United States
- Principal Characters: Maxine Hong Kingston, Bak Goong, Ah Goong, Think Virtue, Ed, BaBa, Brave Orchid, MaMa, The Brother
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography
- Subjects: History, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Tradition, Racism, Sexism, Gender roles, Asia or Asians, Ethnic groups, Immigration or emigration, Oppression, Storytelling, Folklore, Loneliness, Men, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans, Railroads
- Locales: California, New York, Vietnam, Hawaii, Nevada, Guangdong Province, China
Form and Content
In 1975, Maxine Hong Kingston, a daughter of Chinese immigrants to the United States, published The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, a reconstruction of the experiences, mythical and real, of her female ancestors. She painted a rich picture of her family, enhanced by tales from folklore and history. She had two goals in writing her book: to understand her dual ethnic and cultural heritage and to claim her identity as a female.
In China Men, Kingston turned her attention from females to the male members of her family. The...
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