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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent storytelling, combining autobiographical and historical fact with imagination and fantasy to tell stories of men (mostly of her own family) and their journeys. <br/><br/>Several of these stories are about her ancestors and their journeys to American: her Great-grandfather of the Sandalwo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33121571">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn’t really get into this book as much as I had hoped. I wrote on Maxine Hong-Kingston’s The Woman Warrior as my senior thesis so I am familiar with her work and style. Hong-Kingston weaves together myth and fact as she recounts the stories of Chinese male immigrants to the United States, fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50005811">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[like <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30852.The_Woman_Warrior_Memoirs_of_a_Girlhood_Among_Ghosts" title="The Woman Warrior  Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston">the woman warrior</a>, china men is written in a sort of &quot;AND NOW PRESENTING...CHINA...AND CHINESE AMERICA...TO THE WEST&quot; narrative voice, which is definitely problematic in more than one way (though to be fair, it was also at least partially a job given to kingston by the readers and cri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15585965">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like this one too. It reminds me a lot of how life is with my mother. I think, a lot of Asian-American who have really Asian parent can relate to the story. I really like the stories she would tell. Very interesting. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was probably my very first introduction to Asian reading and I loved it!  It was so interesting to read about a different culture and that kept me turning pages.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Chinese-American immigrant experience as understood and imagined by a young person.  From clearing fields for sugar cane in Hawaii (1860s) to building the railroad through the Sierra Nevada to running a laundry in New York City (1920s)to fighting in the Vietnam War with myths and interesting charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23762730">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderful book- a mix of family history, folktales, fiction, and history. Beautiful, sad, funny, evocative. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Weird blend of myth, cultural and family history; initially confusing, but then you realize that the author herself is trying to work through and piece together her own history on the page in front of you, giving purpose to all the meandering. Written by the daughter of Chinese emigrants who is tryi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31977152">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I will never forget the lonely scene in the dance hall.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another favorite of Ms. Klau's]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is underrated and overshadowed by <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30852.The_Woman_Warrior_Memoirs_of_a_Girlhood_Among_Ghosts" title="The Woman Warrior  Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston">The Woman Warrior</a></em> but just as good, perhaps more readable even. We found a 1st edition hardcover at The Strand in NYC a few years back and while getting it autographed, Maxine Hong Kingston (who is a terribly cool woman) corrected the final word in the boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12752951">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An entertaining history lesson (don't get me wrong, the men's stories are the main focus, but you can't help but pick up some history while reading them!). The style is interesting - it goes back and forth from prose to (sometimes crass) poetry. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kingston combines history and fictional narrative to great effect.  A terribly moving book.  I read Woman Warrior also, but this is the one I really remember.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Purple prose at it's muddiest. Pure down to earth ether. I was told by my Gender Studies professor that Kingston is required reading in some courses. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[dapat di 'shopping' jogja. tertarik beli setelah baca English version-nya. jadi, pingin tau 'terjemahan'-nya. well, agak mengecewakan :P ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[great lessons on history, magic and change- there's a great chapter about the witch by the bridge]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was really hard to follow.  I'm still not sure how all the pices tie together.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A denser version of Amy Tan.  Not as easy to read but much more historically alive.]]></body>
    
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