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Maxine Hong Kingston, talking story

Contemporary Chinese-American author Maxine Hong Kingston comments about her life as an artist, a writer, and as a human being, and reads from her works The Woman Warrior, China Men, and Tripmaster Monkey.

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  • "Talking story"@en
  • "Talking story"

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  • "Contemporary Chinese-American author Maxine Hong Kingston comments about her life as an artist, a writer, and as a human being, and reads from her works The Woman Warrior, China Men, and Tripmaster Monkey."@en
  • "Contemporary Chinese-American author Maxine Hong Kingston comments about her life as an artist, a writer, and as a human being, and reads from her works The Woman Warrior, China Men, and Tripmaster Monkey."
  • "B.D. Wong narrates this look at the life and work of Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston. The author comments on her life and reads from her works."@en
  • "Portrait of a contemporary Chinese-American author and California native."@en
  • "This personal portrait of Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston explores her life and the principal themes of her work - the intersections of Chinese and American cultures, feminism, pacificism, and the abiding importance of ghosts, mythology and dreams. Kingston recalls her parents' separate migrations to New York City from China and their eventual settlement in her birthplace, Stockton, California. "Talking story" was the revered pastime of the Hong household. Maxine's mother, "a dazzling storyteller," would recount Chinese legend and family lore. Ghost stories, intended to send chills down the listeners' spines, alleviated somewhat the sweltering heat of the family laundry. Attending college at Berkeley, Kingston became involved in the anti-war movement, married actor Earl Kingston, and later, moved to Hawaii, where she wrote her first novel, The Woman warrior (1976). At the heart of the book which concerns racism and sexism is the renowned Chinese legend about a peasant girl who transforms herself into an avenger and leads an army of vengeance against the oppressors. Her next book, China men, winner of the 1980 National Book Award, is a fictional accounting of the racism directed against Chinese men and draws upon the experiences of Kingston's great grandfather and others who were required to cut sugarcane in silence. Maxine imagines her great grandfather plotting revenge and leading a rebellion that ultimately wins him and the other cane workers the right to talk. It also resurrects the history of the Chinese immigrants who built the railroad. Continuing to be politically active, Kingston has recently devoted her energies to helping Chinese students in exile in the U.S. and criticizing the Tianamen Square crackdown in China. Art, politics and humor mesh in her latest work, Tripmaster monkey, in which the legend of the mischievous monkey who brought Buddhism to China is reworked in a contemporary reincarnation to chart the adventures of a playwright and "60's Berkeley kid" named Whitman. Kingston's reminiscenes are supplemented by comments by playwright David Henry Hwang, literary critic John Leonard and fellow novelists, Amy Tan and Jade Snow Wong."

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  • "Nonfiction television programs"@en
  • "Nonfiction television programs"
  • "Television programs"@en
  • "Television programs"
  • "Televised literary readings"@en
  • "Televised literary readings"
  • "Interviews"@en
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Television interviews"@en
  • "Television interviews"

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  • "Maxine Hong Kingston: talking story"
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  • "Maxine Hong Kingston talking story"
  • "Maxine Hong Kingston talking story"@en

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