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Maxine Hong Kingston's parents were Chinese immigrants to
California. Although in China her father had been a teacher
and her mother a doctor, in America they worked in a laundry
and raised six children. Kingston, the eldest child, graduated
from the University of California at Berkeley and won acclaim
when she published her semi-autobiographical work The
Woman Warrior (1976). In this National Book Critics'
Circle Award-winning book, Kingston explores the cultural
problems faced by Chinese Americans, a topic she revisits
in China Men (1980), a National Book Award winner.
In 1989 Kingston published the novel Tripmaster Monkey:
His Fake Book.
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