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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales. The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of TIME magazine's top nonfiction books of the ...
Among her works are The Woman Warrior (1976), awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and China Men (1980), awarded the National Book Award. [5] She has written one novel, Tripmaster Monkey , a story depicting a protagonist based on the mythical Chinese character Sun Wu Kong .
The Woman King is a 2022 American quasi-historical action-adventure film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries.
China Men is a 1980 collection of "stories" by Maxine Hong Kingston.It is a sequel to The Woman Warrior with a focus on the history of the men in Kingston's family. It won the 1981 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-307-75933-7. OCLC 681617682. (The Woman Warrior at the Internet Archive, available only to patrons with print disabilities.) Kwa, Shiamin; Idema, Wilt L. (2010). Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend with Related Texts.
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype is a 1992 book by American psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés, published by Ballantine Books. It spent 145 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list over a three-year span, a record at the time. [ 1 ]
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Gary D. Cohn joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -40.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Lozen (c. 1840 – June 17, 1889) was a warrior and prophet of the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache.She was the sister of Victorio, a prominent chief.Born into the Chihenne band during the 1840s, Lozen was, according to legends, able to use her powers in battle to learn the movements of the enemy. [1]