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	Maxine Hong Kingston Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940) is one of the first Asian American writers in the United States to achieve great acclaim for both her nonfiction and fiction.
		Kingston has said that she thinks she was a storyteller from the moment she was born because she very much wanted to write down everything her mother told her.
		Kingston is hopeful that the day will soon come when she is no longer considered "exotic." She would like to be viewed as someone who writes and teaches about Americans and what it means to be human.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/maxine-hong-kingston (1527 words)

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		Maxine and her husband, Earll Kingston, a fellow English major she had met at UC Berkeley, had gone on vacation to the sleepy neighbor island of Lanai which had only one hotel, a 12-room hotel at that.
		Maxine downplays her own loss in the fire compared to those who lost their lives, but the fire did destroy her home, a book manuscript she had labored over for two years, and the notes of all her writings.
		In wrapping up tonight's profile of Maxine Hong Kingston, it was recently announced that at the age of 60, she has made a major change in her writing career and turned, re-turned actually to poetry.
	www.asianpacificfund.org /awards/bio_kingston.shtml (1539 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Maxine Hong Kingston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Kingston was the third of eight children born to Chinese immigrant parents, and the first to be born in America.
		Kingston’s response: she was not trying to represent a historical overview of Chinese culture, only her own experiences as a Chinese American.
		To those who objected to her use of invention, Kingston explained that the men in her family (and in her culture at large) had generally practiced silence about the hardships and humilations they faced as newcomers in America.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=887 (593 words)

	Maxing Hong Kingston
		Maxine Hong Kingston was born to Chinese immigrant parents, Tom Hong and Chew Ying Lan, in Stockton, California, on 27 October 1940.
		Kingston insists on the audiotape Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story (1990) that had she been born in a middle-class suburb, her struggle to be a writer would have been harder.
		Kingston, as "an outlaw knot-maker," weaves the past and the present together into an intricate pattern to create her "mother book." By talking stories she successfully builds a matrilineage to counterpoint the traditional Chinese patrilineage and unmuffles a personal yet rooted voice for herself.
	www.cc.nctu.edu.tw /~pcfeng/CALF/ch1.htm (7400 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Kingston, Maxine Hong
		Maxine Hong Kingston was born on October 27, 1940 in Stockton, California.
		Kingston strove for a Chinese rhythm to her voice, a typical Chinese-American speech, and rich imagery; her first book was a great success.
		Kingston responded to this criticism by explaining that she is not trying to represent Chinese culture, she is simply trying to portray her own experiences.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/kingston_maxine_hong.html (1461 words)

	Gale Schools - Women's History Month - Biographies - Maxine Hong Kingston
		Kingston's father, Tom Hong, and her mother, Chew Ling Yan, were both Chinese immigrants.
		Kingston graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1962.
		In the memoir, Kingston writes of the conflicting cultural messages she received as the daughter of Chinese immigrants growing up in the America of the 1950s.
	www.galeschools.com /womens_history/bio/kingston_m.htm (1358 words)

	TIME Magazine \| 60 Years of Asian Heroes: Maxine Hong Kingston
		Kingston inspired me to persist as a writer, despite a Hong Kong society that dismissed such endeavors (especially those of a "maybe-Chinese" writing in English).
		As well as being praised for her rich literary oeuvre, Kingston must also be noted for her vision of the kind of borderless world we could create if we try—a timely message now that we are all more or less world citizens, regardless of our origins.
		Kingston's is a moral vision, one to guide not only writers, but all who challenge tradition, history and old-fashioned notions of identity.
	www.time.com /time/asia/2006/heroes/at_kingston.html (411 words)

	Maxine Hong Kingston
		Kingston "manages to tell stories from many time periods while the reader feels as if the stories are occurring in the present.
		Kingston as a little girl is a more effective recounter of actual events that take place, although her cultural separation from the society she is in makes it difficult to decipher what is going on, as in the example of the garbage ghost.
		Kingston lets "the reader experience 'talk-story' firsthand so that the reader may then be able to relate to Kingston's own experiences with her mother's talk-story" (Wallen 12/5/96).
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/canam/kingston.htm (2338 words)

	Amazon.com: The Fifth Book of Peace: Books: Maxine Hong Kingston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Kingston lost the manuscript to her Fourth Book of Peace in a house fire in 1991, and through the process of reviving or regurgitating the contents of the book, she came up with The Fifth Book of Peace.
		The contents of this book was inspired by Kingston's personal experiences, such as the loss of her father, coincidently, Kingston returned home from her father's funeral only to see her neighborhood in a blaze of fire, as well as Vietnam Veterans' accounts of the war and during a writer's workshop that Kingston hosted.
		Kingston whose "woman warrior" stands as a great source of spiritual strength for many narrates the personal voyages she undertook through the course of this book, and peppers them with her quiet strength and wisdom.
	www.amazon.com /Fifth-Book-Peace-Maxine-Kingston/dp/0679440755 (2708 words)

	Maxine Hong Kingston
		Maxine Hong Kingston is a highly acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction and was one of the first Asian Americans to make it to the top of the literary world in America.
		After her childhood, with its long, hard hours of labor, leaving the engineering program felt irresponsible to the young woman; she had come to believe that everything had to be difficult, and English was easy for her.
		Kingston's next book, China Men, was in many ways a companion to her first.
	www.edwardsly.com /kingsto.htm (1206 words)

	Rutgers Writing Program - 100 - Maxine Hong Kingston
		Kingston's essay explores the ways in which speech and silence are used to organize gender roles.
		In another sentence, summarize what Maxine Hong Kingston is trying to do in her essay.
		The panel on which you will appear has been asked to discuss Victor Seidler's "Language and Masculinity" and Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman." You are to present and defend the ideas and observations of one writer against the ideas and observations of the other writer.
	wp.rutgers.edu /teachers/100/sample_assignments/kingston.html (1086 words)

	On China Men
		Kingston is unusually young to be so honored (''in Japan you have to be at least 80''); she is also the first Chinese-American Living Treasure.
		Kingston's experience of Stockton, the city in California's San Joaquin Valley where she was born and raised.
		Kingston's knowledge of Chinese-American men derives principally from Stockton's Chinese community (''which is not a geographically distinct place; there isn't even one whole block that is Chinese''), where her family owned and operated a laundry.
	www.princeton.edu /~howarth/557/woman1.html (3064 words)

	Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
		As Kingston does not maintain a unity of genre, neither does she maintain a unity of diction.
		In like manner, Kingston inverts historical misogynist Chinese practices, such as footbinding and female infanticide, by claiming that perhaps women's feet were bound because women were so strong.
		With this change, Kingston crosses gender barriers and separate spheres, creating a heroine who is at once a feared warrior and a tender mother.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/kingston.html (921 words)

	Maxine Hong Kingston - Short Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		As a young girl growing up in California in the 1940’s, Maxine Hong Kingston lived in two worlds — the America she was born into and the China remembered and related to her by her mother.
		The child of immigrants, Kingston grew up bi-lingual and began composing poetry in English by the time she was nine.
		Another tale explores Kingston’s mother’s life in China (her mother had been a midwife) as a young woman experiencing her first taste of independence at a medical dormitory: "The women who had arrived early did not offer to help unpack, not wanting to interfere with the pleasure and the privacy of it.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art7902.asp (528 words)

	Maxine Hong Kingston Biography
		Born in 1940 to Tom Hong and Brave Orchid, Kingston is the oldest of her parents' six American-born children.
		Kingston's parents serve as the primary sources for the imaginative stories she writes.
		Kingston's father came to America as a scholar and teacher but made his early living in this country washing windows, and later, as part owner in a New York laundry.
	www.enotes.com /woman-warrior/14087 (174 words)

	Maxine Hong Kingston
		The eldest of six children, Kingston is recognized for her epic novels that detail the experiences of first-generation Chinese Americans.
		Kingston and Amy Tan were leaders in bringing Asian American literature to the attention of the public.
		The Semiotics of China Narratives in the Con/texts of Kingston and Tan.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0880531.html (426 words)

	Free Essay Analysis of Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
		In Woman Warrior Kingston’s mother told her the story of her fathers sister who had a child out of wedlock, when Kingston became sexually “of age” in her mother’s eyes.
		Her mother told the story to Kingston, when Kingston started to menstruate in an effort to keep her under control, sexually.
		Just like a white ghost lost in a dark night, Maxine Hong Kingston in her book Woman Warrior displayed the darkness of adultery and the light of being a warrior: a woman warrior.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=30118 (771 words)

	Maxine Hong Kingston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was born as Maxine Ting Ting Hong, the first of six children to a laundry house owner in Stockton, California.
		Kingston was a member of the committee to choose the design for the California commemorative quarter.
		Maxine was honored as a 175th Speaker Series writer at Emma Willard School in September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maxine_Hong_Kingston (340 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Maxine Hong Kingston
		Kingston: Well, the reason my mother was so secretive about that scroll was that it was not really her story.
		Kingston: But what they had to do was study forms of literature and try to figure out what reality sounds like.
		Kingston: You know, I've noticed that Filipina writers, and the Spanish writers, they have been doing that, where they use the two languages and don't even translate from one to the other.
	www.powells.com /authors/kingston.html (3306 words)

	Kingston_Maxine_Hong_ca
		Maxine and her literary work have been deeply influenced by Maxine's parents and their folklore from native China.
		Maxine grew up in a neighborhood filled with immigrants from her father's village.
		Maxine Hong Kingston was born in Stockton and spent her childhood in Stockton's Chinatown.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/kingston_maxine_hong_ca.htm (1090 words)

	Amazon.com: China Men: Books: Maxine Hong Kingston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Although, Kingston explores many different aspects of the Chinese experience in North America, and even starts to explore the ways that China Men were oppressed, I?m not sure she completely proves her case in my mind.
		Kingston often hints at how distant and interchangeable the China Men were to her and to the women of her family.
		Kingston has grown as a writer since The Woman Warrior and anyone interested in a fascinating read on Chinese immigration should pick this one up.
	www.amazon.com /China-Men-Maxine-Hong-Kingston/dp/0679723285 (2132 words)

	Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
		In 1976 Maxine Hong Kingston burst into American literature with the publication of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts.
		Kingston has written of her family upbringing in Stockton, California, of the stories her mother told her as advice and warning, of her father's illegal arrival in the United States, of the exploits of grandfathers who worked on the rails in California, of San Francisco street life in the 1960s, and of traditional Chinese legends.
		Always savvy, often provocative, constantly amused and amusing, Kingston provides a vivid commentary on her writing and offers insight into a body of her work.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /books/c/conv_maxine_hong_kingston.html (365 words)

	Essays: Maxine Hong Kingston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Born in Stockton, California to Chinese immigrants, Kingston's first language was Say Yup, a dialect of Cantonese.
		As a member of a close-knit community, many of whose members came from the same village in China, she was immersed in the storytelling tradition of her particular Chinese culture and soon became a gifted writer in her second language, English.
		Winning eleven scholarships, Kingston began her education at the University of California at Berkeley as an engineering major but soon moved into English literature, receiving her B.A. in 1962 and her teaching certificate in 1965.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/essays/kingston.htm (224 words)

	The Woman Warrior: Maxine Hong Kingston's Girlhood Among Ghosts
		Perhaps the greatest of these is the relationship between Kingston and her mother.
		The most interesting part of this autobiography, however, comes in the form of Kingston's mother's "talk-story." The older woman is constantly telling stories from the Old World and bringing Chinese folklore into her life in America.
		Thus, she is forever sighting ghosts: taxi ghosts, newspaper boy ghosts, government ghosts, etc. As a child, she seemed to be alternately fascinated by her mother's stories and embarrassed by her ignorance and concrete ties to the traditions of her past.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/classic_literature/11907 (582 words)

	Powell's Books - The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Fifth Book of Peace opens as Maxine Hong Kingston, driving home from her father’s funeral in the early 1990s, discovers that her neighborhood in the Oakland-Berkeley hills is engulfed in flames.
		Kingston, who at the time was deeply disturbed by the Persian Gulf War, decides that she must understand her own loss of all she possessed as a kind of shadow-experience of war: a lesson about what it would be like to experience up close its utter devastation.
		In the middle section of this remarkable book, Kingston reconstructs for us her lost novel, the lush and compelling story of the Chinese-American Wittman Ah Sing and his wife, Taña–California artists who flee to Hawaii to evade the draft during the Vietnam War.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0679440755 (438 words)

	Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story
		Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story gives viewers the opportunity to hear this storyteller speak from her heart about what motivates her to create: a turbulent haunting of ancestors, her cultural heritage, sexual and racial oppression, and her search for self.
		There is a natural flow of stories about her life and growth, as a writer and a person, that is always woven into her past.
		Many of the tales that Kingston relates emanate from her ancestors and the suffering they endured.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/TalkingStory.html (419 words)

	AWG_kingston_maxine
		Of particular interest to teachers is the three-week unit of Kingston's The Woman Warrior, complete with lesson plans, discussion questions, activities and assignments, supplemental reading, notes and bibliographies.
		She quotes extensively from Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan and Lawrence Yep as she connects her personal experiences in her search for an ethnic identity with the same kind of experiences described in the authors' writings.
		Beginning with a brief biography of Kingston in which she recounts a fourth grade writing experience, working feverishly on what was ultimately a thirty-verse-poem, the site also contains summaries, early influences and critical appraisals for three of her novels: The Woman Warrior, China Men, and Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /awg_kingston_maxine.htm (932 words)

	Maxine Hong Kingston Bibliography
		After an introduction to her life and work, author Kingston discusses the structures and manner of compositions in her works.
		Kingston talks about her motivation, her family and her heritage which influence her writing.
		Maxine Hong Kingston: The Ethnic Writer and the Burden of Dual Authenticity
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/kingstonbib.htm (1080 words)

	Amazon.ca: Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston: Books: Maxine Hong Kingston,Paul Skenazy,Tera Martin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		by Maxine Hong Kingston (Author), Paul Skenazy (Editor), Tera Martin (Editor) "For the past ten years, the 33-year-old Kingston has lived on Oahu along with her husband Earll, an actor, and her son Joseph..." (more)
		Since Kingston cannot change her girlhood or the influences on her writing, and the interviewers cannot avoid asking about them, the same points get repeated endlessly; and Kingston's responses to her critics are not balanced by the inclusion of the criticism itself.
		In a fascinating collection of interviews, renowned author Maxine Hong Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and the role of Asian-Americans in our history.
	www.amazon.ca /Conversations-Maxine-Hong-Kingston/dp/1578060591 (509 words)

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