汤亭亭：女勇士英文.pdf

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
THE WOMAN WARRIOR

Maxine Hong Kingston is Senior Lecturer for Creative Writing at
the University of California, Berkeley. For her memoirs and fiction,
The Fifth Book of Peace, The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster
Monkey, and Hawai’i One Summer, Kingston has earned numerous
awards, among them the National Book Award, the National Book
Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction,
an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Literature
Award, and a National Humanities Medal from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the rare title of “Living
Treasure of Hawai’i.”
ALSO BY MAXINE HONG KINGSTON

China Men
Tripmaster Monkey
Hawai’i One Summer
The Fifth Book of Peace
To Mother and Father
Contents

No Name Woman

White Tigers

Shaman

At the Western Palace

A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe
No
Name
Woman
“You must not tell anyone,” my mother said, “what I am about to tell
you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the
family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she
had never been born.
“In 1924 just a few days after our village celebrated seventeen hurry-up
weddings—to make sure that every young man who went ‘out on the road’
would responsibly come home—your father and his brothers and your
grandfather and his brothers and your aunt’s new husband sailed for
America, the Gold Mountain. It was your grandfather’s last trip. Those lucky
enough to get contracts waved goodbye from the decks. They fed and
guarded the stowaways and helped them off in Cuba, New York, Bali,
Hawaii. ‘We’ll meet in California next year,’ they said. All of them sent