Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and China Men

1. Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and China Men Kyra Howell, Professor Brown, Genre Studies

2. Maxine Hong Kingston… • AKA: Maxine Ting Ting Hong, Ting Ting Hong, Maxine Ting Ting Hong Kingston, and Maxine H. Kingston. • She was born on October 27, 1940 in Stockton, California. • The eldest of six children born in the United States. • She attended the University of California, Berkley. Which she graduated from in 1962. • Married to the actor Earll Kingston. • The couple have a son named Joseph Lawrence Chung Mei. • Widely known to be an activist and feminist.

3. Get to the Know the Family • Maxine’s father, Tom Hong, was a calligrapher, poet, and teacher in his village of Sun Woi. • Her mother, Ying Lan (Chew) Hong (Brave Orchid) was a midwife from Canton. • After Ying was illegally brought to the U.S., she and Tom moved to California. • Father’s side: Grandmother Ah Po, Grandfather Ah Goong, uncle Dai Bak, uncle SahmBak, NgeeBak, and the unnamed aunt • Mother’s side: aunt Moon Orchid, the outside grandpartents, Modern aunt, cousins, and an unnamed uncle. • Others: Great grandfather BakGoong, KauGoong, BakSook, Goong, and uncle Bun,

4. Work

5. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts • No Name Woman • White Tigers • Shaman • At the Western Palace • A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe

6. China Men • On Discovery • On Fathers • The Father from China • The Ghostmate • The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains • On Mortality • On Mortality Again • The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains • The Laws • Alaska China Men • The Making of More Americans • The Wild Man of the Green Swamp • The Adventures of Lo Bun Sun • The American Father • The Li Sao: An Elegy • The Brother in Vietnam • The One-Hundred Year Old Man • On Listening

7. Maxine Hong Kingston