Table of Contents
The Woman Warrior 1
China Men 181
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book 479
Hawai'i One Summer 865
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
June 873
Our First House
My High School Reunion
War
Dishwashing
July 889
Chinaman's Hat
A City Person Encountering Nature
Useful Education
Talk Story: A Writers' Conference
Strange Sightings
August 909
Lew Welch: An Appreciation
A Sea Worry
Essays, Reviews & Poems 1977-87 917
Review of Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer 919
Duck Boy 922
Middle Kingdom to Middle America, Review of Child of the Owl by Laurence Yep 927
Talk Story: No Writer Is an Island-Except in Hawaii 931
Reservations About China 936
San Francisco's Chinatown: A View from the Other Side of Arnold Genthe's Camera 940
The Coming Book 949
Precarious Lives, Review of Scent of Apples by Bienvenido N. Santos 953
Two Poems:
Restaurant 957
Absorption of Rock 958
An Answer to the Question, "Who Is an Ethnic Writer?" 960
Cultural Mis-readings by American Reviewers 961
A Writer's Notebook from the Far East 973
Imagined Life 977
Through the Black Curtain 987
Chronology 993
Note on the Texts 1004
Notes 1008