Maxine Hong Kingston / interviewed by Helen Mickiewicz and Elaine Kim.

Maxine Hong Kingston won rave reviews in 1977 for her book “The Woman Warrior.” She has a new book “China Men.” Kingston views the two books as parts of the same work, chronicling the experiences of the women and men in her family and their experiences in moving from China to America. Here she is interviewed by Helen Mickiewicz of KPFA and Elaine Kim, professor of Asian-American Studies at University of California, Berkeley. The interview covers topics such as the difficulty of adjusting to life in America, the Exclusion Laws of the early 20th Century, growing up Chinese in America, and the problems of writing ethnic literature in this country.