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1	Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilation into American culture. see all copies from £2.95! new only from £7.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	China Men more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston Kingston, in this sequel to WOMAN WARRIOR, writes about the building of the transcontinental railroad and the Chinese men who worked on the project, including her father and various male ancestors. see all copies from £1.59! new only from £6.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Teacher more books like this by Warner Sylvia Ashton, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Maxine Hong Kingston (Foreword by) TEACHER was first published in 1963 to excited acclaim. Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children, found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. They were passionate, moody children, bred in an ancient legend-haunted tradition; how could she build them ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.07!
4	Woman Warrior more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilation into American culture. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston Wittman Ah Sing is an unstoppable hipster poet and playwright on the streets of San Francisco, after the Beats have left and before the hippies have arrived. He falls in love with Nancy the Beautiful, marries Tana, and chases his dream to write and stage an epic drama spanning America and China. see all copies from £2.19! new only from £7.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Fifth Book of Peace more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston Kingston's book was written in response to the burning of her home in the Oakland fires of 1991, in which she also lost the manuscript to a novel-in-progress called THE FOURTH BOOK OF PEACE. Incorporating that book into a memoir about the loss of her house, Kingston has created a moving meditation on loss and memory as well as a plea for peace in ... see all copies from £2.19! new only from £2.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Woman Warrior V392 more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilation into American culture. see all copies from £5.65! signed copies \| first editions
8	Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston (Editor) This poignant collection, compiled from Kingston's healing workshops, contains the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars, including combatants, war widows, spouses, children, conscientious objectors, and veterans of domestic abuse. "Vetrans of War, Vetrans of Peace" includes accounts from people that grew up in military families, served as ... see all copies from £8.07! new only from £12.03! \| first editions
9	The Woman Warrior, China Men more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Gordon (Introduction by) Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilation into American culture. see all copies from £8.48! new only from £14.10!
10	To Be the Poet more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston "I have almost finished my longbook, Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark". "To Be the Poet" is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her 60 years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring ... see all copies from £5.79! new only from £6.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	F.O.B. and Other Plays more books like this by David Henry Hwang, Henry Hwang, Maxine Hong Kingston (Foreword by) see all copies from £5.65! first editions
12	Hawaii one summer more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston''s essays do not attempt to capture Hawai''i but instead provide the reader with a ge nerous sampling of her impressions over a twenty year period whilst living there. ' see all copies from £7.59! new only from £10.47! \| first editions
13 view cover	Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston more books like this by Paul Skenazy (Editor), Tera Martin (Editor), Maxine Hong Kingston In a fascinating collection of interviews, renowned author Maxine Hong Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and the role of Asian-Americans in our history. As her books always hover along the hazy line between fiction and memoir, she clarifies the differences and exults in the difficulties of distinguishing between the remembered and the re ... see all copies from £9.18! new only from £13.42!
14	Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston see all copies from £9.11! signed copies \| first editions
15	Physical Disability more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston, Self see all copies from £7.69! new only from £57.19!
16 view cover	Selected from China Men and the Woman Warrior more books like this by Literacy Volunteers of New York City Sta (Editor), Maxine Hong Kingston see all copies from £6.16!
17 view cover	Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston, Tera Martin (Editor), Paul Skenazy (Editor) In 1976 Maxine Hong Kingston burst into American literature with the publication of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Since then her subsequent works -- China Men (1980) and Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989) -- have startled readers with their complex projections of Asian-American life as a bicultural and bilingual ... see all copies from £22.35! first editions
18	Die Schwertkämpferin by Maxine Hong Kingston see all copies from £10.69!
19	Talk Story: An Anthology of Hawaii's Local Writers more books like this by Eric Chock (Editor), Maxine Hong Kingston see all copies from £33.19!
20 view cover	The Female Bildungsroman: A Postmodern Reading by Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston see all copies from £130.28! new only from £130.28!
21	Through the black curtain more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston see all copies from £5.48! signed copies \| first editions
22	Two foreign women. by Maxine Hong Kingston, Luisa Valenzuela see all copies from £15.96!

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