China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston. Knopf, 1980.
Vintage softcover. Front cover has some wear at edges and light fading. Spine is faded and lightly creased. Back cover has some scratching along edges. Very good condition.
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior (1976), foregrounds the stories of Chinese American women, especially her mother, in a culture that often silenced or marginalized them. The book interweaves myth, memory, and autobiography to explore how women create identity in a context of both patriarchal oppression and cultural displacement. China Men (1980) is a hybrid of memoir, myth, history, and fiction that explores the lives of Chinese men in America, particularly through the lens of Kingston’s own family.