Most Popular Books by Maxine Hong Kingston

A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a Fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned--in the catastrophic Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.

The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here''s a storyteller''s tale of what they endured in a strange new land.

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. As her books always hover along the hazy line between fiction and memoir, she clarifies the differences and exults in the difficulties of distinguishing between the remembered and the re-created.

In her singular voice—humble, elegiac, practical—Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five. Kingston’s swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage (“can’t divorce until we get it right. / Love, that is. Get love right”) to her arrest at a peace march in Washington, where she and her "sisters" protested the Iraq war in the George W. Bush years. Kingston embraces Thoreau’s notion of a “broad margin,” hoping to expand her vista: “I’m standing on top of a hill; / I can see everywhichway— / the long way that I came, and the few / places I have yet to go. Treat / my whole life as if it were a day.” On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, Kingston revisits her most beloved characters: she learns the final fate of her Woman Warrior, and she takes her Tripmaster Monkey, a hip Chinese American, on a journey through China, where he has never been—a trip that becomes a beautiful meditation on the country then and now, on a culture where rice farmers still work in the age-old way, even as a new era is dawning. “All over China,” she writes, “and places where Chinese are, populations / are on the move, going home. That home / where Mother and Father are buried. Doors / between heaven and earth open wide.” Such is the spirit of this wonderful book—a sense of doors opening wide onto an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.

Essays on the island and its history and traditions from the National Book Award–winning author of The Woman Warrior. In these eleven thought-provoking pieces, acclaimed writer and feminist Maxine Hong Kingston tells stories of Hawai’i filled with both personal experience and wider perspective. From a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and numerous other honors, the essays in this collection provide readers with a generous sampling of Kingston’s exquisite angle of vision, her balanced and clear-sighted prose, and her stunning insight that awakens one to a wealth of knowledge.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late ’60s.

A manual on conjuring the elusive muse, this volume is Kingston''s manifesto, avowal, and declaration of a writer who turns to poetry exclusively. Kingston delivered the 2000 William Massey lectures at Harvard, on which this book is based. Illustrations.

" Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace" is a harvest of creative, redemptive storytelling-nonfiction, fiction, and poetry-spanning five wars and written by those most profoundly affected by it. This poignant collection, compiled from Kingston''s healing workshops, contains the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars, including combatants, war widows, spouses, children, conscientious objectors, and veterans of domestic abuse. " Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace" includes accounts from people that grew up in military families, served as medics in the thick of war, or came home to homelessness. All struggle with trauma - PTSD, substance abuse, and other consequences of war and violence. Through their extraordinary writings, readers witness worlds coming apart and being put back together again through liberating insight, community, and the deep transformation that is possible only by coming to grips with the past. For more than 15 years, National Book Award-winning author Maxine Hong Kingston has led writing-and-meditation workshops for veterans and their families. The contributors to this volume are part of this community of writers working together to heal the trauma of war through art. Maxine Hong Kingston''s books-" The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, The Fifth Book of Peace," and others-have won critical praise and national awards. President Bill Clinton presented her with a National Humanities Medal in 1997.

Durant toute son enfance en Californie, Maxine Hong Kingston a entendu sa mère lui narrer des récits ancestraux chinois où les filles ne valent rien, où l''honneur de la famille importe plus que tout, et où seule une femme déguisée en guerrier peut marcher librement vers son destin. Prise entre les feux d''une vie américaine et ceux d''une famille nostalgique de son pays d''origine, la personnalité de Maxine va naître de ces deux cultures, opposées et pourtant complémentaires dans le coeur de la grande écrivaine qu''elle deviendra. Complexe et magnifique, à la fois révolté et tendre envers les siens, La Femme Guerrière est une oeuvre fondatrice sur la construction d''un être tiraillé de toutes parts et condamné à subir les préjugés sur un sexe dit faible. Cette autobiographie romanesque, alliant souvenirs et mythes, réalité et songes, a remporté le National Book Award en 1976 .Traduit dans le monde entier, enseigné dans les universités américaines, La Femme Guerrière est aujourd''hui acclamé comme un classique de la littérature.

UN CLÁSICO MODERNO GANADOR DEL NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD MÁS DE UN MILLÓN DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS UNA ESTIMULANTE MEZCLA DE AUTOBIOGRAFÍA Y MITOLOGÍA «Vertiginoso, elemental, un poema convertido en espada». THE NEW YORK TIMES «Un clásico, y con razón». CELESTE NG Cuando era niña, Kingston habitó dos mundos muy distintos: la California a la que emigraron sus padres y la China de las historias de su madre. Las feroces y astutas guerreras que poblaban los cuentos de su madre chocaban frontalmente con la dura realidad que le había tocado vivir a las mujeres de su familia. El sentido de identidad de Kingston emergió en las grietas de estas historias, vacíos que aprendió a llenar con sus propias fabulaciones. Guerrera de las palabras, la autora forja en estas páginas mitos y recuerdos, fundiéndolo todo para hallar una comprensión nueva de su linaje y de su propio presente. Un libro que combina la autobiografía con el folclore chino para crear un rico tapiz de historias que exploran temas universales como la identidad, el feminismo o la herencia cultural. «Intensa, feroz e inquietante. Una historia salvajemente aterradora y literalmente maravillosa». THE WASHINGTON POST «Un triunfo. Sorprendentemente lograda» . TIME

Maxine Hong Kingston wächst in zwei scheinbar unvereinbaren Welten auf: im individualistischen Kalifornien der 1940er-Jahre, wohin ihre Eltern migrierten, und in dem in den Geschichten ihrer Mutter, Tapfere Orchidee, heraufbeschworenen China – einem Land voller Geisterglauben und Schrecken, Tradition und Zusammenhalt, das im harschen Widerspruch zur misogynen Wirklichkeit von starken, findigen Frauen bevölkert wird. Mit der Aufgabe betraut, jene unsichtbare Welt der Geister und Wunder in Einklang zu bringen mit den Bedingungen der neuen Heimat, begibt sich Kingston schließlich auf die Suche nach ihrem eigenen Platz in der Welt. Sie findet ihn in den rätselhaften Lücken, die ihr die Erzählungen der Mutter offenbaren. Kingstons so zorniges wie bezauberndes, vielschichtiges wie selbstbewusstes Die Schwertkämpferin ist ein bahnbrechendes Werk über Emigration und Identität, angesiedelt zwischen Fiktion und Erinnerung, Folklore und Familiengeschichte, ein ständiges Hin und Her zwischen dem profanen Alltag im Wäschereigeschäft der Familie und epischen, surrealen Traumlandschaften, das große emanzipative Kraft entfaltet.

The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams. Maxine Hong Kingston made a stunning entrance on the American literary scene with The Woman Warrior (1976), her “memoirs of a childhood among ghosts." Not only an account of growing up poor and Chinese American in the San Joaquin Valley, it was also an audacious feat of imaginative transformation and pathbreaking work of feminist autobiography, drawing on ancient myths and the family stories her mother brought over from China to make sense of a transformed life in America. A companion to The Woman Warrior, which she called her “mother-book,” Kingston’s “father-book” China Men (1980) spreads out across a large geographical and historical canvas to envision the lives of her male relatives who immigrated to America. Taken together, The Woman Warrior and China Men offer a profound, kaleidoscopic, genre-defying narrative of the American experience. Kingston''s third book, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), is the wildly inventive story of Wittman Ah Sing, a Berkeley graduate student whose experience of the San Francisco Beat scene transforms his understanding of his own Chinese heritage. Rounding out the volume are a series of essays from 1978 reflecting on her life in Hawaii, later collected as Hawai‘i One Summer, personal musings whose subjects range from the contentions of a conference of Asian American writers to home-buying, surfing, and the work of the Beat poet Lew Welch. Also included are hard-to-find essays about the creative process and Kingston’s exasperated, insightful account of how most of the reviewers of The Woman Warrior fell prey to lazy stereotypes about the “exotic” and “inscrutable” East.

本书是本描述了华裔人士在美国奋斗的力作,展现了高超的现代艺术创作技巧,具有超越民族与国界的文化内涵。

The Maxine Hong Kingston Papers contain typescripts, proofs and galleys, announcements, reviews, and related material for Kingston''s books, "The Woman Warrior" and "China Men," as well as other material related to her writing. The collection dates from 1952 to 1999 and has been divided into six series: Books; Other Writings; Correspondence; Professional Papers; Biographical Research Materials; Teaching Career; and Personal and Family Papers. In addition to her writings, the collection includes documentation of Kingston''s teaching career, speaking engagements, and honors. The correspondence is particularly rich and includes correspondence with other well-known authors, including Joan Didion and Jessica Hagedorn, publishers, and fans. Family correspondence can be found in the Personal and Family Papers series.

Bill Moyers interviews this author who offers new images of America as a "melting pot" where the dutiful notions of the Puritans blend with the Monkey spirit of the Orient to produce a new American cos.

著者原译名:M.H.金斯顿

Includes selections from the two autobiographical works, facts about the author, and more for the adult new reader.