Cover Image

China men / Maxine Hong Kingston.

Show other versions (2)

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.

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description
Main Author:	Kingston, Maxine Hong (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Vintage Books, 1989.
Edition:	1st Vintage international ed.
Subjects:	Kingston, Maxine Hong > Family. Chinese Americans > History. Chinese Americans > California > Biography. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. California > Biography. Asian Americans > Biography. China. Kingston, Maxine Hong. Authors, American. Chinese Americans. Families. California. Biography. History.

Table of Contents:

On discovery
On fathers
The father from China
The ghostmate
The Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains
On mortality
On mortality again
The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
The laws
Alaska China men
The making of more Americans
The wild man of the Green Swamp
The adventures of Lo Bun Sun
The American father
The Li Sao: an elegy
The brother in Vietnam
The hundred-year-old man
On listening.