Henry Allen, review in Washington Post, June 26, 1980.

Mary Gordon, review in New York Times Book Review, April 23, 1989.

Paul Gray, review in Time, December 6, 1976.

Diane Johnson, review in the New York Review of Books, February 3, 1977.

Maxine Hong Kingston, "At the Western Palace," The Woman Warrior, Vintage International, 1989, p. 160.

William McPherson, review in Washington Post Book World, October 10, 1976.

Timothy Pfaff, review in New York Times Book Review, November 7, 1976.

Pin-chia Feng, "Maxine Hong Kingston," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 173: American Novelists Since World War II, Fifth Series, Gale Research, 1996, pp. 84-97.