Maxine Hong Kingston

In these movies, Lee connects with the viewer by portraying himself as a common man facing a struggle, usually the oppression of a freedom that Bruce’s character embodies. Granted average viewers have never faced a mob boss, the premise of an ordinary minority man challenging the tyrannical power of foreigners made for a popular action plot. Lee would then use his martial arts skills, wits, and training in weapons, most popularly the nunchakus, to completely devastate the opposition. His role in…

Andreas Gursky was born on January 15, 1955 in Leipzig, Germany. He is a German photographer and a professor at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, which is as well in Germany. This photographer is best known for his monumental digitally manipulated photographs which portray various aspects such as consumer culture and busyness of modern life, resulting in dramatic images that mark the line between the representation and the abstract. Gursky began photographing in black and white with a hand-held…

Jackie Chan is a martial art film actor. Before he was born, his parents, Charles and Lee-lee Chan, travelled to Hong Kong, where they found a job to work for a French ambassador. His father became the ambassador’s cook and handyman (4). Jackie Chan, born in April 7, 1954, lived in Hong Kong with his father and mother. He was named Chan Kong-sang which meant “Born in Hong Kong” and was nicknamed Pao-pao, which meant cannonball, since his parents had never seen such a big baby (3-5). As…

Boba is a popular ingredient for many desserts in Asian countries. However, in the United States, boba is rarely used in foods that people consume on a daily basis. Boba is not usually eaten by itself; it can be added to tea or smoothies. It can also be used as the main ingredient for a sweet soup. Having grown up in Taiwan, the country where boba milk tea was invented, I love boba and have eaten boba for many years. It is a treat that I often crave in America, but I have discovered that boba is…

In the Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kinston uncovers genuine China to pursuers through her accumulation of "talk-stories" from a Chinese mother to her little girl. Through her discussion stories, Brave Orchid broadens Chinese convention into the lives of her American kids and enhances their creative energy. While Brave Orchid's narrating is instructive and useful, it additionally emphasizes male centric and misanthropic messages of customary Chinese culture. In addition, as Brave Orchid does not…

Throughout the entirety of Maxine Hong Kingston’s story “No Name Woman”, continuous acts of domestic abuse are shown, impacting women of the Chinese society. Maxine Hong Kingston tells readers that this value to keep women silenced in their culture is very common and usually overlooked by outsiders of the society. Men mainly dictate the men and women who practice this culture. Clearly, men are the dominant figure in the Chinese society, and it is not usual for women to stand against the men’s…

insanity, we tend to adhere a state of pity for whoever is living with it. Many people are set aside or seen differently because they somehow adopted this state of mind. Maxine Hong Kingston depicts the struggles of several women that managed to live through this in: The Woman Warrior. Through symbolism, conflict, and characterization, Kingston establishes a clear picture of when insanity takes over women's lives. The struggle to become accepted and wanted in the family, was always defeated by…

Maxine Hong Kingston and Anne Moody wrote classic pieces of literature that helped shed light on various struggles women in America dealt with. While their written pieces cover two different stories it can be said that some of the struggles they faced had distinct similarities. The two women had different experiences growing up, one was a first-generation American while the other was in a lower income and racial class. Kingston and Moody both utilize their writing platform to discuss the…

Similarly, “The Language of Silence”, written by Maxine Hong Kingston, who was a first generation young Chinese American immigrant, faced a dark and silent world. It began when Kingston entered kindergarten or as she would call it: American school; fortunately due to lack of knowing how to speak the English tongue. She struggled to comprehend cultural differences between…

people listen to the word ‘autobiography’, they instantly expect a book which deals with the life story of the author. They believe that it must be a book of nonfiction. However, The Woman Warrior – Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts written by Maxine Hong Kingston is different than other autobiographies. First of all, it is an autobiography by a Chinese American woman. Then, she included lots of fantastic elements. Moreover, the protagonist of her autobiography is not only her, but her mother,…