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China Men Study Guide

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by Maxine Hong Kingston
About 76 pages (22,740 words)
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China Men Study Guide consists of approx. 76 pages of summaries and analysis on China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston. Browse the literature study guide below:

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Once upon a time Tang Ao searched for the Gold Mountain and came upon a land of women. He was surprised but imagined he was pleased to discover the land of women, assuming as a man he would be in good standing. The women took him to meet their queen. They first chained him, then pierced his ears, broke and bound his feet, and painted his face. They caused him then to serve food at a banquet where the guests commented on his feminine charms. In the land of women, there are no taxes and no wars, and the land of women is in North America. (read more)
      On Discovery
      On Fathers
      The Father from China
      The Ghostmate
      The Great Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains
      On Mortality
      On Mortality Again
      The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
      The Laws
      Alaska China Men
      The Making of More Americans
      The Wild Man of the Green Swamp
      The Adventures of Lo Bun Sun
      The American Father
      The Li Sao: An Elegy
      The Brother in Vietnam
      The Hundred-Year-Old Man
      On Listening

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