Maxine Hong Kingston, author of such seminal works as The Woman Warrior and China Men, is one of the most important American writers of her generation. In this remarkable memoir, she writes from the point of view of being sixty-five, looking back on a rich and complex life of literature and political activism, always against the background of what it is like to have a mixed Chinese-American identity.
Passages of autobiography, in which she describes such events in her life as being imprisoned with Alice Walker for demonstrating against the Iraq war, meld with a ficitonal journey in which she sends her avatar Wittman Ah Sing on a trip to modern China. She also evokes her own poignant journey, without a guide, back to the Chinese villages her father and mother left in order to come to America.
- ISBN10 184655246X
- ISBN13 9781846552465
- Publish Date 3 March 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Harvill Secker
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English