Diasporic Experiences in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men

Abstract

Maxine Hong Kingston’sChina Men(1980) attempts to delineate a new kind of Chinese American male heroism and to incorporate historical information on discrimination against Chinese Americans. In this book, Kingston recreates history from the Chinese American viewpoint. This dissertation has carried out the studyof diasporic experiences in Kingston’s novelChina Men. In the novel, all the characters who are claiming America in their own way face the problem of home. The characters’ psychological problems are causes of displacement and dislocation from their nativeland.