Maxine Hong Kingston (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
In her writings Maxine Hong Kingston speaks not only for herself and Chinese immigrants but for all marginal groups struggling to find their own voices in an oppressive foreign culture. Born of Chinese immigrant parents, she was a part of two worlds, the Chinese culture of her parents and the American one of her birth. Kingston attempts to reconcile the two heritages and out of them forge her own identity. Her father, Tom Hong, had in China been chosen by his family to be a scholar instead of a laborer. Frustrated with teaching school in his village, he had departed for the United...
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