Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingstonis a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 October 1940
CountryUnited States of America
together stories conflict
A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.
fishes
How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.
parent underwear jam
Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.
training march humans
Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.
infidelity extravagance adultery
Adultery is extravagance.
feet dangerous bounds
Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound
ugly may retarded
I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
oral-tradition stories dont-change
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.