Maxine Hong Kingston
Teacher Resource Guide

Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center Maxine Hong Kingston page. You will find biography, lesson plans, and criticism on this page. The ISLMC is a meta-site for librarians, teachers, parents and students. You can search this site, use an index or sitemap. Revised 9/15/00

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Biography

Maxine Hong Kingston
Biography and criticism from Voices from the Gaps
Maxine Hong Kingston
Extensive biography and review of The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
Biography timeline; issues and themes; criticism. From the Canadas
Maxine Hong Kingston
Biography
The Good Life
Kingston's response to what books helped shape her character.

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Unit/Lesson Plans

Maxine Hong Kingston. Classroom Issues and Strategies From Heath
A View of Three Cultures Through the Eyes of Three Contemporary Women Writers
By Nicolette Perrault. Yale-New Haven Unit/Lesson Plans. College Prep
English. Grade 11
Knowledge of Self Through the Study of Autobiography/Biography
Curriculum unit by Charlotte Hylton. Includes Kingston's China Man
Women in Traditional China and their Portrayal in Chinese Folktales
Unit Plan; High School English Grade 10-12; by Gale Billingsley;
from Yale New Haven Lesson Plans
Discussion Questions. The Woman Warrior
From Women, Feminism and History class, Harvard
In Search of a Hero Lesson Plan
Grade 7, English, Research; Montgomery County Public Schools
Basic Social Studies & Language Arts Skills: Using Chinese Literature in Translation
By A. Elgin Heinz, for the Asia Society
The 1860's : Transportation
Uses "The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains" in China Men
Imperial Tombs Lesson Ideas
From China Curriculum, Orlando Museum of Art
The Woman Warrior. Supplementary Web Site Evaluations
From American Collection. NCTE
(Immigration) Who Am I?
Social studies; grades 6-8; From Santa Clara County Office of Education

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Bibliography

Maxine Hong Kingston Bibliography

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Criticism

Critical Reception
Good review of criticism
Asian-American Literary "Authenticity": Frank Chin's 1991 Criticism of Maxine Hong Kinston in 1975
By Judy Huang, Dartmouth
The "Ayatollah of Asian America" versus the "Woman Warrior"
By von Yvonne Walter; Twin Peaks, Issue 3
Maxine Hong Kingston
Extensive review of The Woman Warrior. By Pin-chia Fent
Maxine Hong Kingston: Warrior Woman
Ethnic, woman; warring gender; class conflicts; critical
reception- Discussion of Kingston's work.
The Clash of Writing Styles in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
By Lindsay Mochal, University of Georgia
The Tao is Up
By Margaret Lok; from The New York Times
The Woman Warrior. Book Review From Amazon
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book. Book Review From Barnes & Noble

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Miscellaneous

Ballad of Mulan
See Full English translations, by Anonymous (c.5 A.D.); from ChinaPage
The Ballad of Mulan
Page from Ariel's Mom in Hong Kong

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