The Woman Warrior, China Men: Introduction by Mary Gordon-Fast Shipping

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Here—for the first time in one volume—are two classic,brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. Inboth books the acclaimed author mines her family’s past and her culture’s stories,weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power.

The WomanWarrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, which won the National Book CriticsCircle Award, is Kingston’s disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growingup Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the Americato which her parents have emigrated, a place inhabited by white “ghosts,” and theChina of her mother’s “talk stories,” a place haunted by the ghosts of the mother, who had been a doctor in China but in the United States is reduced torunning a laundry, tells her daughter traditional tales of strong, wily women warriorstales–thatclash puzzlingly with the real oppression of Chinese women. Kingston learns to fillin the mystifying spaces in her mother’s stories with stories of her own, engagingher family’s past and her own present with anger, imagination, and dazzling passion.

China Men, a National Book Award winner for fiction, is Kingston’s unforgettableimaginative journey into the hearts and minds of generations of Chinese men in America,from those who worked on the transcontinental railroad in the 1840s to those whofought in Vietnam. Mixing vivid fables and legends, personal stories from her ownfamily, and details of the historical hardships faced by Chinese immigrants in differenttimes and places, Kingston illuminates their long, arduous search for the Gold Mountain.