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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN Literary Masters, Vol. 9: Maxine Hong Kingston, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Maxine Hong Kingston. “Cultural Mis-readings by American Reviewers.” In Asian and Western Writers in Dialogue, edited by Guy Amirthanayagam. London: Macmillan, 1982.

Maxine Hong Kingston. “Personal Statement.” In Approaches to Teaching the Woman Warrior, edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim. New York: Modern Language Association, 1991.

Maxine Hong Kingston. “Useful Education.” In Hawai’i One Summer. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998.

Donna Perry. “Maxine Hong Kingston.” In Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out, Interviews by Donna Perry. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993.

Paula Rabinowitz. “Eccentric Memories: A Conversation With Maxine Hong Kingston.”Michigan Quarterly Review, 26 (1987): 177-179.

Neila C. Seshachari. “Reinventing Peace: Conversations with Tripmaster Maxine Hong Kingston.”Weber Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal, 12 (Winter 1995): 7-26.

Diane Simmons.Maxine Hong Kingston. New York: Twayne, 1999.

Phyllis Hoge Thompson. “This is the Story I Heard: A Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston and Earll Kingston.”Biography, 6, no. 1 (1983): 4.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN Literary Masters, Vol. 9: Maxine Hong Kingston, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Children playing in San Francisco’s Chinatown. California Historical Society, San Francisco.

Civil-rights demonstrator being attacked by a police dog in Birmingham, Alabama, 3 May 1963. AP/ Wide World.

Galley proof page from China Men.

Girl in holiday attire on the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown. California Historical Society, San Francisco.

Kingston, Maxine Hong, at the time her 1980 book China Men was published.

Kingston, Maxine Hong, in 1983. © Margo Davis, 1983.

Kingston, Maxine Hong, at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington, D.C., April 1989. Photograph by Amy Ling.

Kingston, Maxine Hong, in 1993. Photograph by Jane Scheer/University of California, Berkeley.

Kingston, Maxine Hong, at her home in Manoa Valley, Honolulu, in 1982. Photograph © Franco Salmoiraghi, 1998.

Man with two children, Chinatown. California Historical Society, San Francisco.

Manuscript page from an early draft of The Woman Warrior. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Manuscript page from an early draft of Tripmaster Monkey. Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Members of the National Organization for Women demonstrating at the White House.

Students protesting at the University of California, Berkeley, 1964.

Typescript page of China Men. Courtesy of Maxine Hong Kingston.