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Maxine Hong Kingston




Maxine Hong Kingston

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born
October 27, 1940

gender
female

place of birth
Stockton, California, The United States


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She was born as Maxine Ting Ting Hong to a laundry house owner in Stockton, California. She was the third of eight children, and the first among them born in the United States. Her mother trained as a midwife at the To Keung School of Midwifery in Canton. Her father had been brought up a scholar and taught in his village of Sun Woi, near Canton. Tom left China for America in 1924 and took a job in a laundry.

Her works often reflect on her cultural heritage and blend fiction with non-fiction. Among her works are The Woman Warrior (1976), awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and China Men (1980), which was awarded the 1981 National Book Award. She has written one novel, Tripmaster Monkey, a story depicting...more




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avg rating: 3.73 | 4,639 ratings | 389 reviews | 13 distinct works | 10 fans
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of... The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
avg rating 3.75 — 3,439 ratings — published 1976
10 editions
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China Men China Men
by Maxine Hong Kingston
avg rating 3.73 — 374 ratings — published 1980
7 editions
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Bo... Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
by Maxine Hong Kingston
avg rating 3.50 — 282 ratings — published 1989
4 editions
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The Fifth Book of Peace The Fifth Book of Peace
by Maxine Hong Kingston
avg rating 3.69 — 97 ratings — published 2003
5 editions
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Hawai'i One Summer Hawai'i One Summer (Latitude 20 Books)
by Maxine Hong Kingston
avg rating 3.95 — 21 ratings — published 1998
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Veterans of War, Veterans of P... Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
by Maxine Hong Kingston
avg rating 4.31 — 16 ratings — published 2006
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To Be the Poet To Be the Poet
by Maxine Hong Kingston
avg rating 3.53 — 17 ratings — published 2002
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The Woman Warrior, China Men The Woman Warrior, China Men
by Maxine Hong Kingston
avg rating 3.47 — 15 ratings — published 2005
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of... The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published 1989
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Conversations With Maxine Hong... Conversations With Maxine Hong Kingston (Literary Conversations Series)
by Maxine Hong Kingston
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 1998
2 editions
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""In a time of destruction, create something.""
Maxine Hong Kingston
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"This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I'm a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books. And I don't have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read."
Maxine Hong Kingston (Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book)
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"...it's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants."
Maxine Hong Kingston (Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book)
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