Maxine Hong Kingston Research Paper

Maxine Hong Kingston is one of the first-generation Chinese-American citizens because she was born in California at October 27, 1940 as the eldest child to a poor Chinese family who were wishing for better life, so they decides to immigrate and reside in the United States because of starvation in China, in 1924. Kingston father works as a teacher in China, while her mother works as a midwife there. Chen Lok Chua
 records that the first generation of Chinese immigrants have the same version of the American dream. They call America the "Golden Mountain". They immigrated because they have a materialistic goal which is to get rich quickly. Chinese immigrants say, "We'll go to sea and pick up . . gold on Gold Mountain"(61). However, Kingston’s’ family dream of prosperity vanished after they reside in New York and find that they are unable to find jobs that are concordant with their old ones. As a result, they open a laundry and work in it to raise their 6 children, and to complete their lives. When Kingston grows up, she works alongside with her family in the laundry and attends Edison …show more content…
In her writings she blends fiction with non-fiction and reality with imagination. Indeed, her writings represent the voice of the Chinese-American woman who had a struggle to find her identity. Moreover, they express how she fight in order to have a balanced identity comes as a result of mixing two diversely cultures. For instance, she publishes her first book The Woman Warrior in 1976 and the scholars consider it as an autobiography, autobiographical novel, or memoir. The Woman Warrior is regarded as an iconic work of ethnic writing especially for the Asian American minority who flee China to America. It talks about the Chinese immigrants who suffer from isolation in the United States of America. It expresses how they feel that they