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Maxine Kingston is one of the greatest Chinese American writers since 1970s,whose works are well popular in literary market and academic circle.Published in 1980,China Men,has won many prizes for Maxine Kingston,including the National Book Award,and the National Book Critics Circle Award,and also been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.This book is a“narrative genealogy”(Lee,2003)of Chinese immigrants in the United Stated,depicting their real living experience from the Opium War to the end of Vietnam War.With the representation of the Oriental’s life to incarnate their pursuit of American Dream,China Men is closely connected with Orientalism put forward by Edward Said.Therefore,from the perspective of Said’s Orientalism,this paper tries to subvert the orientalism in American dream of the Chinese immigrants in the China Men.
Maxine Kingston is one of the greatest Chinese American writers since 1970s, whose works are well popular in literary market and academic circle. Published in 1980, China Men, has won many prizes for Maxine Kingston, including the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and also been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. This book is a “narrative genealogy” (Lee, 2003) of Chinese immigrants in the United Stated, depicting their real living experience from the Opium War to the end of Vietnam War. With the representation of the Oriental's life to incarnate their pursuit of American Dream, China Men is closely connected with Orientalism put forward by Edward Said.Therefore, from the perspective of Said's Orientalism, this paper tries to subvert the orientalism in American dream of the Chinese immigrants in the China Men.