China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (ISBN:0679723285)

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		China Men
	
				(7 reviews)			
(187 Readers)

			Maxine Hong Kingston		
	
The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what...more
 The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.   less

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
After reading this, I began understanding where my father, a Chinese immigrant, was coming from.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
I didn't enjoy Woman Warrior, and I'm not enjoying China Men.  I don't like fantastical realism, or whatever the genre is called.  I'm slogging my way through the book, but I don't expect I'll ever get around to finishing it.

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							Timo
						
							few weeks ago						
All in all an interesting memoir type book about chinese immigrants in the united states and their backgrounds back in China. Certainly interesting enough to be worth spending some time with.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
I've read worse, but not by much.
horrible horrible book.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
This book switches between Chinese folktales, autobiography of Kingston, and biographical sketches of all her Chinese Ancestors. It's a very tough read. I'm writing lesson plans for it for BookRags.com. I'm not sure it's suitable to teach in a classroom. It has some very foul language and imagery. Yuck!!

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Profund and poetic, not a lighthearted killtime reading.great observation of contrast between men and women, father and daughter, Chinese/Cantones and US culture,reality and imagination,   history and nowadays.

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							Alisia
						
							few weeks ago						
Kingston honors her father and her male ancestors in this book which could be the counterpart to Woman Warrior which was equally wonderful, she is wise and weaves imagination, fact and cultural insight and facts to create a picture of life in China and as a chinese immigrant, her father who was a scholar in China and other characters who leave behind dignity and respect to go to a new country and...more
 Kingston honors her father and her male ancestors in this book which could be the counterpart to Woman Warrior which was equally wonderful, she is wise and weaves imagination, fact and cultural insight and facts to create a picture of life in China and as a chinese immigrant, her father who was a scholar in China and other characters who leave behind dignity and respect to go to a new country and endure discrimination, invisibility in 1930-1960 era U.S. I think it makes sense now to try to reach the experiences of immigrants who were completely ignored and unacknowledged in their own lives as Americans. It makes me glad we are leaving our American Dream behind.   hide

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