Discusses the symbolism of the bird in Maxine Hong Kingston's "Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts". Keywords: China, Chinese, Chinese-American, autobiography

Reviews the autobiography No Name Woman, by Maxine Kingston. Examines the issue of community use of moral or social codes to control citizen behavior. Discusses the community control in a traditional Chinese community.

Analysis of Maxine Hong Kingston's chapter 'White Tigers' from her book "The Woman Warrior." Analyzes the juxtaposition of her fantasy of Fa Mu Lan with the reality of her own life.

Essay describes how Maxine Hong Kingston utilizes the story of her aunt to help herself find out her own identity in her novel "No Name Woman."

"The Woman Warrior" consists of five stories which focuses on five women: Kingston's long-dead aunt, "No-Name Woman"; a mythical female warrior, Fa Mu Lan; Kingston's mother, Brave Orchid; Kingston's aunt, Moon Orchid; and finally Kingston herself. Based on her mother's stories, which are integrated with Kingston's imagination, "The Woman Warrior" reveals her past childhood experiences, and explores her struggle to reconcile her Chinese heritage with her American identity. It is only at the very end that Kingston realizes that, through her writing, she can express her concern about the unfairness toward the voiceless Chinese women.

Maxine Hong Kingston's book The Woman Warrior is about her courageous search for her true identity. A young Chinese-American woman raised by both conflicting cultures and accepted by neither, Kingston reveals in this book the great diversity and impossible demands of living in two cultural worlds, a process that helped her to discover her identity.