China Men
by Kingston, Maxine
Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling house in the 1940s, when Maxine was born, and then a laundry where Kingston and her brothers and sisters toiled long hours. Kingston graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1962 from the University of California at Berkeley, and, in the same year, married actor Earll Kingston, whom she had met in an English course. The couple has one son, Joseph, who was born in 1963. They were active in antiwar activities in Berkeley, but in 1967 the Kingstons headed for Japan to escape the increasing violence and drugs of the antiwar movement. They settled instead in Hawai‘i, where Kingston took various teaching posts. They returned to California seventeen years later, and Kingston resumed teaching writing at the University of California, Berkeley.While in Hawai‘i, Kingston wrote her first two books. The Woman Warrior, her first book, was published in 1976 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award, making her a literary celebrity at age thirty-six. Her second book, China Men, earned the National Book Award. Still today, both books are widely taught in literature and other classes. Kingston has earned additional awards, including the PEN West Award for Fiction for Tripmaster Monkey, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and the National Humanities Medal, which was conferred by President Clinton, as well as the title “Living Treasure of Hawai‘i” bestowed by a Honolulu Buddhist church. Her most recent books include a collection of essays, Hawai‘i One Summer, and latest novel, The Fifth Book of Peace. Kingston is currently Senior Lecturer Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley.
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China Men
by Kingston, Maxine
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- First Edition. First Printing
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- 1980
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- Hardcover
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New York: Random House Inc, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 308pp. 8vo. Stated First Edition. Author had also written "The Woman Warrior" in 1976. Ms. Kingston now brings the world of the fathers and sons, in China and in America, before us. Original price is intact and there are no marks. Slight shelf wear.… Read more about this item Item Price
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China Men
by Kingston, Maxine
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- 1980
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New York: Knopf, 1980. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Solid, typical used copy with some soiling/foxing to top page edge.
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CHINA MEN
by Kingston, Maxine
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- 1980
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Westminister, MD: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾Tall. Type: Book 1980/1st Edition. This book discusses the relationships of fathers and sons, in China and America. The pages are clean and tight with no markings in the book. Item Price
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China Men
by Kingston, Maxine
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Book. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1939 stated first edition in good clean 372 page hardcover only several newspaper pastedowns inside else clean. Item Price
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China Men
by Kingston, Maxine
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- 1980
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China Men
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- 1980
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. with no dust jacket. 1980. Book Club Ed. Hardcover. Vg-g/DJ . Item Price
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