Nü dou shih

gui ying tong tong zhong di xiao nü hui yi = [The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts]

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Maxine Hong Kingston: Nü dou shih (Chinese language, 1977, Huang Guan Za Zhi She)

259 pages

Chinese language

Published Aug. 7, 1977 by Huang Guan Za Zhi She.

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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the America to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother's "talk stories." Her mother tells her traditional tales of strong, wily women warriors - tales that clash puzzlingly with the real oppression of women. Kingston learns to fill in the mystifying spaces in her mother's stories with stories of her own, engaging her family's past and her own present with anger, imagination, and dazzling passion.

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  • Kingston, Maxine Hong.
  • Chinese Americans -- California -- Biography.

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