Maxine Ting Ting Hong[1] (1940-10-27) October 27, 1940 (age 83) Stockton, California, U.S.
Occupation
Novelist
Nationality
American
Education
University of California, Berkeley (BA)
Notable works
The Woman Warrior, The Fifth Book of Peace, Tripmaster Monkey, China Men
Notable awards
National Book Critics Circle Award National Book Award National Humanities Medal National Medal of Arts
Spouse
Earll Kingston
(m. 1962)
Children
1
Maxine Hong Kingston
Traditional Chinese
湯亭亭
Simplified Chinese
汤亭亭
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Tāng Tíngtíng
Wade–Giles
T'ang T'ingt'ing
IPA
[tʰáŋ tʰǐŋtʰǐŋ]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Tong Ting-ting
Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese: 湯婷婷;[2] born Maxine Ting Ting Hong;[3] October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962.[4] 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.[5][a]
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.[6] She has also garnered criticism from female Asian scholars for her "'over-exaggeration' of Asian American female oppression".[7][8]
^"Maxine Hong Kingston: Chronology". eNotes. Archived from the original on 2009-07-15. Retrieved 2014-08-25. 1965–1967: Kingston teaches English and mathematics at Sunset High School in Hayward, California. She is active in the protest movement against the Vietnam War.
^"Maxine Hong Kingston 湯婷婷". 英文文學與文化教學資料庫 (in Chinese).
^Huntley, E. D. (2001). Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 1. ISBN 9780313308772.
^Svetich, Kella (2004). "Kingston, Maxine Hong". In Parini, Jay; Leininger, Phillip W. (eds.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195156539.
^"National Book Awards – 1981". National Book Foundation. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
^Huang, Judy (2001). "Asian-American Literary 'Authenticity': Frank Chin's 1991 Criticism of Maxine Hong Kingston in 1975". Dartmouth College. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
^Cite error: The named reference fong was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Li, David Leiwei (1998). Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent. Stanford University Press. p. 51. doi:10.1515/9781503617636-004. S2CID 246245756 – via De Gruyter.
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