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Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese: 湯婷婷; born Maxine Ting Ting Hong; October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese Americans.
Kingston has contributed to the feminist movement with such works as her memoir The Woman Warrior, which discusses gender and ethnicity and how these concepts affect the lives of women. She has received several awards for her contributions to Chinese American literature, including the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1981 for China Men.Kingston has received significant criticism for reinforcing racist stereotypes in her work and for fictionalizing traditional Chinese stories in order to appeal to Western perceptions of Chinese people. She has also garnered criticism from female Asian scholars for her "over-exaggeration of Asian American female oppression".
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GenderFemale
Birthday1940-10-27 (84 years old)
Birth NameMaxine Ting Ting Hong
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Awardshonorary doctor of Brandeis University, Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Asian American Literary Awards, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Dos Passos Prize, National Medal of Arts, National Humanities Medal, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Book Award
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