Volume 27, Number 19 · December 4, 1980
China Myths
By Maxine Hong Kingston
In response to Chinese Ghost Story
(August 14, 1980)
To the Editors:
Re: Frederic Wakeman's review of China Men [NYR, August 14]: I did not write the myths to "aggrandize" my family and other Chinese Americans by connecting us to the high culture of China. Instead, all the myths in my books derive from the low, peasant culture, just as most Chinese Americans do.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Honolulu, Hawaii