Maxine Hong Kingston
In 1940, she was born in Stockton, California and the first generation Chinese immigrants. There are eight children in her family and she is the third. She started to write in very young age and had had an essay “I Am an American” in Girl Scout Magazine. In 1962, she married an actor, Earl Kingston and was teaching in high school. After moving to Hawaii, she completed and published her first novel “The Woman Warrior”, which reflected culture heritage. In 1976, she was awarded for The Woman Warrior. After that, she had some famous such as Chinese Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Talking story, and so on. In addition to the famous works, she also was awarded by other honors such as National Humanities Medal, Northern California Book Award. However, she was arrested in Washington in 2003 because of crossing the police line during a protest against the war in Iraq. She also put her antiwar thoughts into her works. In fact, she was influence by many writers such as Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman, and William Carlos Williams to make her shape her analysis of gender studies. As for her topics of works, she focused on Chinese American lives as well as self-identity, problems of generation, and women’s status as well as thoughts.
We can realize how she influences people in American and in China.
1940: born in Stockton, California and first generation Chinese immigrants
1962: graduates from the University of California, Berkeley
1962: marries Earll Kingston, a classmate at Berkeley
1964: gives birth to son, Joseph Lawrence Chung Mei
1965: earns a teaching certificate and begins teaching high school
1967: moves to Hawaii
1976: The Woman Warrior: Memoires of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
begins teaching English at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu
1980: China Men
1981: receives Guggenheim Fellowship
begins teaching at University of California, Berkeley
1989: Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
1990:Talking Story (paying particular attention to her commentary on cultural heritage and both sexual and racial oppression)
2003: She was arrested in Washington, D.C., for crossing a police line during a protest against the war in Iraq.
· 2005: she was honored as a 175th Speaker Series writer at Emma Willard School in September 2005.
In 1940, she was born in Stockton, California and the first generation Chinese immigrants. There are eight children in her family and she is the third. She started to write in very young age and had had an essay “I Am an American” in Girl Scout Magazine. In 1962, she married an actor, Earl Kingston and was teaching in high school. After moving to Hawaii, she completed and published her first novel “The Woman Warrior”, which reflected culture heritage. In 1976, she was awarded for The Woman Warrior. After that, she had some famous such as Chinese Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Talking story, and so on. In addition to the famous works, she also was awarded by other honors such as National Humanities Medal, Northern California Book Award. However, she was arrested in Washington in 2003 because of crossing the police line during a protest against the war in Iraq. She also put her antiwar thoughts into her works. In fact, she was influence by many writers such as Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman, and William Carlos Williams to make her shape her analysis of gender studies. As for her topics of works, she focused on Chinese American lives as well as self-identity, problems of generation, and women’s status as well as thoughts.
We can realize how she influences people in American and in China.
1940: born in Stockton, California and first generation Chinese immigrants
1962: graduates from the University of California, Berkeley
1962: marries Earll Kingston, a classmate at Berkeley
1964: gives birth to son, Joseph Lawrence Chung Mei
1965: earns a teaching certificate and begins teaching high school
1967: moves to Hawaii
1976: The Woman Warrior: Memoires of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
begins teaching English at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu
1980: China Men
1981: receives Guggenheim Fellowship
begins teaching at University of California, Berkeley
1989: Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
1990:Talking Story (paying particular attention to her commentary on cultural heritage and both sexual and racial oppression)
2003: She was arrested in Washington, D.C., for crossing a police line during a protest against the war in Iraq.
· 2005: she was honored as a 175th Speaker Series writer at Emma Willard School in September 2005.
