Volume 27, Number 13 · August 14, 1980
Chinese Ghost Story
By Frederic Wakeman
China Men
by Maxine Hong Kingston
Knopf, 308 pp., $10.95
Although Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men is partly about the tense and ambivalent relations between women and men, its main theme is the experience of becoming Chinese-American, a process as filled with risk and ambiguity as the relationship between the sexes. The very title of the novel is calculated with this ambivalence in mind. As Kingston wrote in an essay published several years ago:
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