Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston Chinese 湯婷婷 Transcriptions Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Tāng Tíngtíng Wade–Giles T'āng T'íngt'íng IPA [tʰɑ ŋ tʰi ŋtʰi ŋ] Cantonese Jyutping Tong Ting-ting Yale Romanization Tōng T Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese: 湯婷婷; pinyin: Tāng Tíngtíng; born October 27, 1940) is a Chinese American author and 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 immigrants living in the United States. She 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. Kingston has received several awards for her contributions to Chinese American Literature including the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1981 for China Men.