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| | Teaching Asian American Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | References to the red-faced deity of war and poets, Kuan Kung, depict a wah kiu culture at odds with the heroic one of the motherland. |
 | | Immigration, however, has altered Kuan Kung's martial aspect: having put away pen and sword in anticipation of scaling the gold mountain of America, he is left temporarily vulnerable. |
 | | Mu Lan, the legendary heroine who fought in the Khan's armies, and Kuan Kung, the Chinese Mars, are heroic manifestations of ordinary men and women in contemporary literature and reflect the ways in which Chinese men and women characteristically present themselves in immigrant storytelling circles. |
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