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Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese Americans.

Kingston has contributed to the feminist movement with such works as her memoir The Woman Warrior, which discusses gender and ethnicity and how these concepts affect the lives of women. She has received several awards for her contributions to Chinese American literature, including the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1981 for China Men.Kingston has received significant criticism for reinforcing racist stereotypes in her work and for fictionalizing traditional Chinese stories in order to appeal to Western perceptions of Chinese people. She has also garnered criticism from female Asian scholars for her "over-exaggeration of Asian American female oppression". Wikipedia  

✵ 27. October 1940   •   Other names ماکسین هنق کینقستون
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The Woman Warrior
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
Tripmaster Monkey
Tripmaster Monkey
Maxine Hong Kingston
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Famous Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

“In a time of destruction, create something.”

Maxine Hong Kingston

“You can't eat straight A's.”

Maxine Hong Kingston book The Woman Warrior

Source: The Woman Warrior

“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.”

Maxine Hong Kingston book The Woman Warrior

Source: The Woman Warrior

“Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.”

Maxine Hong Kingston book Tripmaster Monkey

Source: Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

“You're too young to decide to live forever.”

Maxine Hong Kingston book The Woman Warrior

Source: The Woman Warrior

“We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.”

Maxine Hong Kingston book The Woman Warrior

Source: The Woman Warrior

“I think that individual voices are not as strong as a community of voices. If we can make a community of voices, then we can speak more truth. Also in a community, we learn to listen…”

Maxine Hong Kingston

Source: On the strength of a community in “’I Can Write My Shadow’: Alexis Cheung Interviews Maxine Hong Kingston” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/can-write-shadow-alexis-cheung-interviews-maxine-hong-kingston/ in Los Angeles Review of Books (2016 Dec 22)

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