Series 1 Books 1975-1995
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
The Woman Warrior
Early notes undated
Typescript draft of "No Name Woman" undated
Typescript draft of "Gold Mountain Women" Revised carbon, incomplete undated
Typescript carbon, corrected undated
Typescript draft of "The Woman Warrior" undated
Page proofs, cover proof undated
Dust jacket, title page 1976
Galleys
Paperback edition undated
Scope and Content Note
Publication announcements, advertising copy 1980
Advertisements, announcements, and reviews 1976-81, undated
Excerpts
"The Death of Precious Only Daughter," in Viva 1975 Jan.
"Moon Orchid Comes to the Gold Mountain," in New West 1976 Sept.
[Untitled excerpt] in New Dawn 1977 March
"The Girl Who Would Not Assert Herself," in Literary Cavalcade 1990 Sept.
Miscellaneous excerpts and fragments 1978-82, undated
Articles 1977-95
Scope and Content Note
Translations
Notes, clippings, and correspondence 1977-80, undated
Reviews 1976-89, undated
Miscellaneous undated
Artwork (inspired by?) undated
Stage adaptations
Readers' Theatre 1980, undated
Hawaii Screenwriters' Conference 1982 Nov.
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles 1986-87
Berkeley Repertory Theatre 1993-94
Berkeley Repertory Theater- reviews 1994-1996
Huntington Theatre Company, Boston College 1994
Huntington Theater Company, Boston College- reviews 1994
Center Theatre Group / The Ahmanson at the Doolittle Theater 1994-95
Center Theatre Group / The Ahmanson at the Doolittle Theater- reviews 1995
Miscellaneous undated
Scripts undated
China Men
Statement of plans undated
Note
Notes for early drafts [1976-78]
Typescripts, "Ur draft" and notes for "Gold Mountain Heroes" undated
Typescripts for "Gold Mountain Heroes"
1st/2nd draft undated
2nd/3rd draft undated
5th/6th draft undated
7th [?] draft undated
8th drafts (2 versions), corrected undated
8th draft (another version), corrected undated
9th [?] draft, incomplete undated
Typescripts for "China Men"
Final draft, corrected undated
Annotated leaves from a copy given to MHK's brother, Joe Hong for comments undated
Final draft, notes undated
Revised final draft undated
Chapters and fragments, drafts 1976, undated
Corrections undated
Galleys undated
Printer's proof (bound) 1980
Cover and title page, layout and designs 1979-80
Covers (foreign editions) [ca. 1980]
Publication announcements, advertising copy 1980
Advertisements, publicity 1980
Correspondence and review undated
Reviews 1980
Excerpts
"On Understanding Men," for Hawaii Review 1976 Dec.
in Bamboo Ridge 1978
"How are You? I am Fine...," in California Monthly 1979 Oct.
"How are You? I am Fine...," in California Monthly 1979 Oct.
"The Making of More Americans," in New Yorker 1979-83
in American Poetry Review, Mother Jones, Redbook, Book Digest Magazine 1980 May-Nov.
in The Women Writers Calendar
unidentified undated
Articles
Sledge, Linda Ching undated
Scope and Content Note
Lerner, Adrienne 1981 May 24
Scope and Content Note
Translations 1983, undated
Reviews 1980-85, undated
Chinese edition of China Men 1980
Scope and Content Note
Translations 1983, undated
Tripmaster Monkey
Plans undated
Note
Notebook ca. 1980
Typescripts
Draft 1983 Dec. 12
Corrected draft 1984 Nov. 27
4th/5th drafts, corrected undated
4th/5th drafts, corrected undated
Annotated photocopy (p. 153-154) undated
Cover design undated
Advertisements 1989
Reviews 1989
Advertisements, reviews 1989
Advertisement poster undated
Artwork (inspired by?) undated
Filmscript by Calvin Jung undated
Series 2 Other Writings 1973-1997
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Short Stories
"Duck Boy" in The New York Times Magazine 1977 June 12
Articles
"Literature for a Scientific Age: Lorenz' King Solomon's Ring," in National Council of Teachers of English Journal, Jan. 1983 1973
"Arnold Genthe and Chinatown" 1977
Scope and Content Note
"A Review of the Inscrutable Reviews of The Woman Warrior" 1978 Feb. 1
Scope and Content Note
"Hers" [columns]
Typescript drafts
In The New York Times 1978 June-July
"Reservations about China" in Ms. Magazine, 1978 Oct.
Scope and Content Note
"A Writer's Notebook from the Far East" in Ms. Magazine, 1983 Jan.
Scope and Content Note
"Useful Education" in California Teacher 1987 Nov.
"Rupert Garcia: Dancing Between Realms" in Mother Jones 1988 Oct.
"The Novel's Next Step" in Mother Jones 1989 Dec.
"History of Chinese-Americans" undated
Scope and Content Note
Essays
Untitled undated
Poems
"Suitcase Theatre" 1975
Scope and Content Note
"Absorption of Rock" and "Restaurant" in The Iowa Review, Spring/Summer 1981
Reviews
Didion, Joan, A Book of Common Prayer
in the California Monthly 1977 April-May
Yep, Laurence, Child of the Owl 1977 May 1
Typescript draft
In The Washington Post 1977 May 1
Santos, Bienvenido N., Scent of Apples in The New York Times Review of Books 1980 May 4
Charlot, John, Aloha 'Aina: The Hawaiian Perception of Life in Poetry, Art and Religion undated
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous review comments for book jackets and advertisements undated
Miscellaneous
Unidentified writings [on writing] undated
Fragments undated
Contributions
Your Reading by National Conference of Teachers of English 1974-75
Hawaii One Summer with Leigh McLellan 1978
"Why are Body-Surfers Mesmerized by the Sea?" [from American Dragons, edited by Laurence Yep] [1978]; 1979, 1995
Scope and Content Note
West Coast Fiction, edited by James D. Houston 1979 Dec. 9
Scope and Content Note
Machines Who Think by McCorduck, Pamela 1979
Scope and Content Note
"Who is an Ethnic Writer"
Typescript drafts of statement
In Cultural Climate 1982 Jan.
FOB and Other Plays by David Henry Hwang [1990]
Scope and Content Note
"Why Rainbow City Shall Overcome" by Bob Callahan 1992 Jan.
Scope and Content Note
War after War: a special issue of City Lights Review [with "Thoughts on the Gulf War" by MHK] 1992
Scope and Content Note
Autobiographies of American Women: an Anthology by Jill Ker Conway 1992
Scope and Content Note
Learning True Love: How I Learned and Practiced Social Change in Vietnam, by Sister Chan Khong, forewords by Thich Nhat Hanh and Maxine Hong Kingston 1994-95
Scope and Content Note
For a Future to be Possible: Commentaries on the Five Wonderful Precepts, by Thich Nhat Hanh, with Robert Aiken, Richard Baker, ... Maxine Hong Kingston, and others 1994-95
Scope and Content Note
"With New Eyes: Towards and Asian American Art History in the Western United States", Catalog introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston 1995 Sept. 23- Oct. 26
Scope and Content Note
Highway 99: A Literary Journey, by David Mas Masumoto, Lawson Fusao Inada...Maxine Hong Kingston, and others 1996-97
Publicity
Reviews
Berkeley! A Literary Tribute by Danielle La France 1997
Scope and Content Note
"Introduction to an anthology of 'local' writing" undated
Scope and Content Note
Series 3 Correspondence 1956-1997
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
General Correspondence
A miscellaneous 1969-96
Academy of American Poets 1979-93
Adelaide Festival 1981-82
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1970s-90s, undated
Allen, Priscilla 1981-91
A. M. Heath & Company 1977-86
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1992-95
American Book Awards 1981-86
American Translators Association 1981-82
American Heritage 1976-82
Antaeus/the ecco press 1979-82
Asia Society 1980-94
Asian/Pacific Women's Network 1980-85
Asiaweek Literary Review 1984-85
B miscellaneous 1968-95
Ballantine Books, Inc. 1978-93
The Bancroft Library 1980-93
Beacon Press 1991-96
Beagle, Peter S. and Padma [Perrera] 1976-78
Bedford Books 1984-85
Berkeley Repertory Theatre 1993-94
Biographical Research Center 1983
Biography, an interdisciplinary quarterly 1983-85
British Broadcasting Corporation 1981-96
Brownmiller, Susan 1977-84
C miscellaneous 1977-95
California Council for the Humanities 1985-96
California Monthly 1977-81
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 1981-82
California State University 1977-93
Camera News, Inc. 1981-82
Chang, Diana (Diana C.) 1978, undated
Charles Scribner's Sons 1981
Chicon, Richard 1967-92
Chin, Bessie 1976-96
Chin, Frank, 1940- 1976
Chopra, Joyce and Tom 1981-92
College of the Pacific 1980-81
Conti, Kris and Charlie 1976-94, undated
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (U.S.) 1982
Cronin, John 1967-86, undated
Curl, John 1987
D miscellaneous 1976-96
De Leo, Hank and Fulzon, Alice 1992-95
Didion, Joan 1977-82
Dillingham, Leslie 1977
Djerassi, Norma 1978-80, undated
Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1977-95
Dukore, Bernard Frank [Bernie] 1983-94
Dukore, Margaret Mitchell 1985-92, undated
E miscellaneous 1978-96
Eastern Michigan University 1979-95
East-West Center 1977
Edlin-Marlowe, Sara 1981-95, undated
Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company 1983-84
Epoch 1979
Esquire 1980, undated
Evans, Mei Mei 1984-94, undated
F miscellaneous 1972-96
Franklin, Ricki 1978-81
Fuller, Beverly 1979-86
G miscellaneous 1973-95
Gach, Gary 1984-96, undated
Gillespie, Patricia Elser 1981-96
Glass, Nancy 1983-92
Granta 1982-95
Griffith, Tracy 1977-83
Gruber, Mark 1994-95, undated
Gutierrez, Noel undated
H miscellaneous 1976-96
Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata, 1949- 1981-92
Harcourt Brace Javanovich 1976-93
Harper San Francisco 1994
Harper's 1974-79
Harper's and Queen 1966
Harper's Bazaar 1993-95
Hartzell, Julian 1992-93
Hawaii Literary Arts Council 1980-86
Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts 1996
Hayes, Nancy 1980-83, undated
HeyDay Books 1989-96
Hong, Maria 1993
Hongo, Garrett Kaoru, 1951- 1983-92
Houghton-Mifflon Company 1974-95
Houston, James D., Jeanne and Cori 1977-95
Hoy, Nancy Jo [Jody] 1982-96
Huang, Helen 1993-95
Hwang, David Henry, 1957- 1980-84
I miscellaneous 1972-96
Inada, Lawson Fusao 1978
The Iowa Review 1980-82
J miscellaneous 1975-96
Jodi F. Solomon Speakers Bureau 1993-96
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1983-95
K miscellaneous 1967-96
Kai, Edward 1957
Kalpakian, Laura 1980-83
Kan, Lilah 1976-96
Katz, Jane B. 1978-94
KCET (Television Station. Los Angeles, Calif.) 1981
KCTS (Radio Station. Seattle, Washington) 1995
Kenyon College 1992-93
King, Jean 1979
Note
Knudsen, Jenn D. 1997
L miscellaneous 1969-96
Landreth, Edward S. [Ted] 1980
Lau, Joseph S. M., 1934- 1981
Lazard, Naomi 1979
Lee, Linda 1956
Lee, Robert 1985
Leong, Dale 1956-58
Letters for Literacy 1996
Lim, Lili 1994
Ling, Amy 1982-95
The Loft 1981-95
The Los Angeles Times 1977-93
Low, Victor 1981-82
Luke, Elmer 1977-97
Lum, Greg 1980-82
M miscellaneous 1973-96
McCallum, Ken 1991-94
MacPike, Loralee 1979-82, undated
Mayerson, Charlotte Leon 1980-96
Meadow Press 1981-95
Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium 1981
Mironchik, M. L. [Lenore] 1967-96
Mitford, Jessica (The Family of) 1996
Modern Language Association of America 1977-91
Mother Jones 1979-92
Ms. 1977-94
Mulligan, Geoffrey 1981-84
N miscellaneous 1974-96
The Nation 1978-82
National Council of Teachers of English 1974-93
Nepenthe 1980-95
New Jersey Project 1995-96
New York Asian Women's Center 1991-95
The New York Times 1975-85
New York University 1980-81
The New Yorker 1996
Nicosia, Gerald [Gerry] 1993-95
O miscellaneous 1977-96
Oakland Free Library 1980-95
Oakland Museum 1984-93
Oberlin College 1977-84
Olsen, Tillie 1978, undated
P miscellaneous 1974-96
Pacific Asia Museum 1995
Paley, Grace 1976-78
PAN Books 1980-92
Paul Kohner-Michael Levy Agency 1979-81
Peace Corps 1979-81
P.E.N. 1977-93
Penguin Books 1977-92
Perry, James 1992
Pitzer College 1981-82
Poets & Writers Inc. 1978-95
Q miscellaneous 1979-85
Quagliano, Tony 1983-85
Quinn, Susan 1967-95
R miscellaneous 1977-96
Random House Books, Inc. 1975-96
Reader's Digest 1979-86
Rechnitz, Bea 1963-95
Rolling Stone 1979-82
Rosequo, Katherine 1979-83
S miscellaneous 1968-96
San Francisco International Poetry Festival 1980
San Francisco State University Poetry Center 1978-91
San Jose Poetry Center 1983-86
Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency 1994-96
Santos, Bienvenido N. [Ben] 1978-82
Santucci, Eleanor 1953-58
Schaffner Literary Agents 1973-94
Scholastic Book Services 1984-86
See, Carolyn 1980, undated
Shan, Te-Hsing 1994-96
Shanghai Institute of Education 1993
Shuval, Mike 1967-95
Simon and Schuster, Inc. 1977-95
Sledge, Linda Ching, 1944- 1981-83
Smith College 1992-95
Smith, Huston 1992-94
Smith, Lawrence R., 1945- [Larry] 1980-96
Smitha, Frank E. 1991-95
Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 1978-80
Stanford University 1978-94
STE Representation 1984-87
Sternburg, Janet 1977-79
Sterling, Richard 1985-90
Surh, Jerry 1977
Susi, Lolly 1979-95
Swenson, Vijaya 1992-93
T miscellaneous 1967-96
Takeuchi, Floyd K. 1972-78
Thompson, Phyllis H. 1979-95, undated
Tufts University 1980-96
U miscellaneous 1973-96
United States Information Agency 1977-95
United States International Communication Agency 1979-82, undated
University of Arizona University of Arizona
University of California
Office of the President 1992-95
Press 1984-95
(System.) University Extension 1996
Berkeley
Miscellaneous 1980-94
Alumni Association 1991-96
Dept. of East Asian Languages 1995
Dept. of English 1982-95
Dept. of Ethnic Studies 1979-84
Housing and Dining Services 1994-96
Office of the Chancellor 1991-92
Office of Public Information 1992-93
Student Learning Center 1992
University Extension 1978-79
Women's Studies undated
Davis 1981-96
Irvine 1981-93
Los Angeles
Miscellaneous 1981-84
Asian American Studies Center 1977-95
Center for the Study of Women 1979-85
Dept. of English 1985-94
Dept. of History 1980
School of Medicine 1986
University Extension 1981-85
Riverside 1984-85
San Diego [1986?]
San Francisco 1980-94
Santa Barbara 1979-83
Santa Cruz 1979-94
University of Chicago 1980
University of Hawaii at Manoa 1977-96
University of Hong Kong 1996
University of Michigan 1980-86
University of North Dakota 1981-84
University of Oklahoma 1981-95
University of Southern California 1980-95
University of Texas 1978-83
University of Washington 1978-85
University of Wisconsin 1981-84
Unterecker, John Eugene, 1922- undated
V miscellaneous 1974-96
Vaughan, Roger, Lynn and Nara 1977-96
Veglia, John 1984, undated
Vermont Council on the Humanities and Public Issues 1981-82
W miscellaneous 1976-96
Walker Art Center 1981-85
Wang, Jennie 1996
Wang, Wayne 1982
Warner Communications, Inc. 1984-85
WB Agency 1977-78
Weber Studies 1996
Weston, Susan 1980-85
Wilder, Cherrie 1977-83
Wilson, Rob, 1927- 1995
Winkley, Bob and Marilyn 1967-94
Wong, Irene 1978-95
Wong, Shawn 1976-77
W. W. Norton & Company 1974-84
X, Y, Z miscellaneous 1976-96
Yang, Belle 1994-95
Yu, March Fong Treasurer, State of California 1991
Zhang, Ziqing 1991-95
Unidentified 1967-1995
Fan Mail
A-L 1976-95
M-Z 1976-96
Series 4 Professional Papers 1956-1998
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Bio-Bibliograpical
Curriculum Vitae
Drafts 1976, 1978-79
Career description and summary undated, 1977
List of Publications 1956-81
Biographical Citations
American Women Writers 1980
Contemporary Authors 1978, 1994, undated
Contemporary Literary Criticism 1981
Current Biography Yearbook 1990
Cyclopedia of World Authors 1989
Modern American Women Writers 1991
Outstanding Young Women of America 1977
Who's Who in America 1980, undated
World Authors 1975-80
Bibliographies
The New York Times Book Review, "Editors' Choice" 1977 Jan. 2, 1980 Nov. 30
The Asia Mail, "10 Best of '77" 1978 Feb.
Time Magazine, "The Best of the Seventies" 1980 Jan. 7
Multicultural Readings from Random House, Inc. 1993-94
Miscellaneous 1976-79, 1991-92, 1997-98, undated
Awards
National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction 1977 Feb. 11
Cross-Culture Encounter in Literature Professional Associate Award 1977 Oct. 17
Anisfeld-Wolf Award in Race Relations 1978 July
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship 1979
National Book Critics Circle nomination 1980
Distinguished Alumnus, Stockton, California Board of Education 1981 Jan. 13
Stockton Arts Commission Award 1981 Jan. 28
Pulitzer Prize nomination for Non-Fiction 1981 Apr. 14
American Book Award 1981 Apr. 30
Woman of the Year, Asian Pacific Women's Network 1981 Sept. 27
Hawaii International Film Festival Award 1982
Hawaii Award for Literature 1983 June 16
Hawaii Award for Literature 1983 June 16
California Council for the Humanities Award 1985 Oct. 17
Edison High School Hall of Fame 1988 May 20
Edison High School Hall of Fame 1988 May 20
Governor's Award for the Arts 1989 Nov. 2
Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award 1993 Jan. 23
Asian American Literature Award 1993 Mar. 12
Oakland Chamber of Commerce Special Achievement Award 1994 Mar. 31
Wesleyan University Honorary Degree 1994 May 29
AT & T Award 1994
Distinguished Writer for 1995, Chapman University 1995 Feb. 14
Asian Pacific American Heritage Community Achievement Award 1995 Apr. 27
Asian American Arts Foundation First Annual 1995 Oct. 7
Golden Ring Awards
Cyril Magnin Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts 1996 Apr. 26
Cyril Magnin Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts 1996 Apr. 26
California Alumni Association Excellence in Achievement 1996 Oct. 11
National Humanities Medal 1997 Sept. 29
Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement 1998 Mar. 30
Clippings 1981-98
Honors
Hawaii State House of Representatives Resolution #308 1977 Feb. 10
Hawaii State Senate Resolution Resolution #168 1977 Feb. 10
Teacher's Education Association of Mid-Pacific Institute 1977 Feb. 11
California State Senate Resolution #115 1981 Jan. 19
California State Senate, 5th District"In Honor of San Francisco Visit" 1981 May
Stockton Chinese Benevolent Association and the Bow On Association 1981 Aug. 8
Certificate
Pacific Asian American Women Woman Warrior Awards 1985 Feb. 22, 1996 May 8
ZYZZYVA @ The New Main undated
Tributes
"Gifted Women" Photographs by Howard Schatz undated
Grants and Fellowships
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1978-83
National Endowment for the Arts 1979
Appointments
State of Hawaii Commission on the Year 2000 1980 Sept.
Peace Corps Advisory Council 1980 Oct. 10
Peace Corps Advisory Council 1980 Oct. 10
Honolulu Commission on Culture and the Arts 1981
Hawaii Committee of the Humanities 1982
Affiliations
Pen American Center 1981
Chinese Pavilion Dedication Committee, Riverside, California 1987 Oct. 10
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1992
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 1995
Wallace Stegner Environmental Center 1995
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund 1996
Pen Center USA West 1996
Berkeley Arts Festival 1997
International Platform Association undated
Biographical Research Materials
Interviews
Miscellaneous 1976-79
Miscellaneous 1979-80
Miscellaneous 1981-82
Miscellaneous 1982
Miscellaneous 1989
Miscellaneous 1989
Miscellaneous 1992-96
Miscellaneous 1993
Miscellaneous 1995
Miscellaneous undated
Interview Questions undated
Writings About
Articles
Miscellaneous 1975-78
Miscellaneous 1976-79
Miscellaneous 1977
Miscellaneous 1980
Miscellaneous 1980
Miscellaneous 1981
Miscellaneous 1981
Miscellaneous 1981-85
Miscellaneous 1982
Miscellaneous 1985
Miscellaneous 1986-89
Miscellaneous 1986-89
Miscellaneous 1990-95
Miscellaneous 1990-95
Miscellaneous 1995
Miscellaneous 1996-98
Miscellaneous 1997-98
Foreign Language undated
Dissertations and Other Scholarly Works
Cheung, King-Kok, "Talk Story: Counter-Memory in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men" 1993 Autumn
Ching, C.Y. Kaleonahe and Elise Dirlam-Ching, " Maskformation: A Journal in Progress" 1993
Chock, Eric, Writers of Hawaii: A Focus on Our Literary Heritage 1980
Conn, Peter J., "Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography" 1996
Conquergood, Lorne Dwight, 1949-, "Between Experience and Expression: The Performed Myth" 1986
Dukore, Bernard, "The Woman Behind The Woman Warrior 1977
Ho, Wen-Ching, "In Search of a Female Self: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior 1987
Hongo, Garrett Kaoru, 1951- Untitled Essay 1992 April
Houston, James D., "The Circle Almost Circled: Some Notes on California's Fiction" 1994
Ludwig, Sami, Concrete Language: Intercultural Communication in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo 1996
Machida, Margo, "Seeing 'Yellow': Asians and the American Mirror" 1990
Ru, Yi-Ling, 1944-, "The Rebellious Impulse in the Works of Ding Ling and Maxine Hong Kingston" undated
Sledge, Linda Ching, "Oral Tradition in Kingston's China Men: A New Model for Multi-Ethnic Literary History" 1981-82
Su, Jung, Between Fact and Fiction: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior 1991
Williams, Dominic, "Fictography, Ethnicity and Self-Invention: Routes and Roots in the Works of Philip Roth and Maxine Hong Kingston" undated
Curriculum Citations
Hawaii Pacific College, "The Asian Americans-- The Gold Mountain People" 1977
Columbia University, "Twentieth Century Women Writers" 1977
UC Berkeley, "Approaches to Teaching Kingston's The Woman Warrior" 1992
UC Berkeley, "A Book Panel Discussion on Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior" 1995
UC Berkeley, "Teaching Woman Warrior and The Joy Luck Club" undated
Mentions
Miscellaneous 1976-79
Miscellaneous 1976-79
Miscellaneous 1980-81
Miscellaneous 1981-85
Miscellaneous 1982-83
Miscellaneous 1985-86
Miscellaneous 1988-89
Miscellaneous 1989
Miscellaneous 1990-91
Miscellaneous 1991-94
Miscellaneous 1992-95
Miscellaneous 1995-97
Miscellaneous 1996-98
Miscellaneous 1998
Miscellaneous undated
Miscellaneous undated
Public Appearances
Lectures
California Asian Pacific Women's Conference, USC, Los Angeles, Calif. 1980 Feb.29-Mar.2
California Asian Pacific Women's Conference, USC, Los Angeles, Calif. 1980 Feb. 29-Mar.2
The Contribution of Asian-Americans to American Literature, Adelaide, Australia 1982 Mar. 3
Multicultural Literary Perspectives, UC Berkeley, Calif. 1982 Mar. 17
"Imagined Life", Hopwood Award Presentation Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1983 Apr. 13
"Imagined Life", Hopwood Award Presentation Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1983 Apr. 13
Hawaii Literary Arts Council, Honolulu, Hawaii 1983 June 21
Race and Sex, Amherst College, Massachusetts 1986 Fall
National Conference of Teachers of English, Seattle, Wash. 1991 Apr. 22
University of Oregon Lecture, Eugene, Ore. 1992 Jan. 16
New Narratives About Nature, UC Berkeley, Calif. 1992 Mar. 14
Talk -Story and Mythic Reality, California State University, Fresno 1992 Mar. 23
Kansas State University Lecture, Manhattan, Kansas 1992 Apr. 17
The Art of Storytelling, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 1992 Apr. 22
Visions and Voices of America, UC Berkeley, Calif. 1992 Sept. 10
University of Colorado, Boulder Lecture, Boulder, Colo. 1992 Sept. 14
Another Book of Peace, UC Irvine, Calif. 1993 Jan. 15
PEN at Penn Program, Philadelphia, Penn. 1993 Jan. 20
Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts Lecture, Cerritos, Calif. 1993 Apr. 5
Talk Story, South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, Wash. 1993 Apr. 25
Cal Alumni Day Speaker's Lecture, UC Berkeley, Calif. 1994 Mar. 5
Prose to Performance: A Discussion, Cowell Theater, Berkeley, Calif. 1994 Mar. 22
Hamilton College Lecture, Syracuse, N.Y. 1994 Apr. 4
Spokane Falls Community College Lecture, Washington 1994 May 2
Production Casebook: The Woman Warrior , Princeton University, N.J. 1994 June 23
Reflective Writing, Mindfulness and the War, A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, San Francisco, Calif. 1994 May 16
Common Reading Presentations on The Woman Warrior, Carelton College, Calif. 1994 Sept. 6
Starr King School for the Ministry Lecture, Berkeley, Calif. 1994 Nov. 15
On Wallace Stegner, His Life and Work, California Academy of Science, San Francisco, Calif. 1995 Feb. 9
Another Book of Peace, California Institute of Technology 1995 Feb. 15
Asian-American Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 1996 Oct. 8
A Harvest of Words: Writers of the Great Central Valley, San Francisco Book Festival 1996 Nov. 3
Peace in Every Step, King Middle School, Berkeley, Calif. 1998 Feb. 1
An Evening with Maxine Hong Kingston, University of New Hampshire 1998 Apr. 17
Author's Night at the Main Library, San Francisco, Calif. 1998 Apr. 24
Talk Story, California State University, Fresno 1998 May 13
Princeton Department of English Lecture, Princeton, N.J. undated
Speeches
Hawaii Library Association Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii 1977 Apr. 2
Hawaii Council of Teachers of English Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii 1977 Apr. 5
Commencement Speech Leeward Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii 1977 May 15
California Association of Teachers of English Convention, San Francisco, Calif. 1978 Feb. 10-12
Behind the Woman Warrior, Honolulu, Hawaii 1978 Mar. 25
Hawaii's Ethnic American Writers Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii 1978 June 19-24
Asian Women Unite, Oakland, Calif. 1979 Nov. 15
Central Valley Memories, California State University, Fresno 1980 Mar. 4
In Conversation with Elizabeth Croll, London, England 1981 Mar. 17
Asian Pacific Heritage, San Francisco, Calif. 1981 May 6
Pitzer College, Spring Convocation, Claremont, Calif. 1982 Feb. 22
The Contributions of Asian-Americans on American Literature, Sapporo, Japan 1982 Mar. 4
University of Hawaii Literary Association Hilo, Hawaii 1982 May 2
Some International Feminist Questions, Honolulu, Hawaii 1982 Nov. 15
Where Are We Going; And When Will We Get There?, San Francisco, Calif. 1983 Aug. 4
Asian American Writers, UC Berkeley, Calif. 1987 June 14
Experiences as a Writer, Carleton College, Calif. 1989 Feb. 3
Writing in a Time of War, San Francisco, Calif. 1991 Oct. 4
AsiaFest '92 1992 Mar. 26
Pearl S. Buck Centennial Symposium, Lynchburg, Virginia 1992 Apr. 6
California Alumni Day Speech, Berkeley, Calif. 1992 Apr. 11
UC Berkeley English Undergraduate Association, Berkeley, Calif. 1992 May 16
In Honor of Friends of the Redwood Library 1993 May 27
Woman Warrior: Novelist Viewpoint of Production, Berkeley, Calif. 1994 Feb. 3
Readings
Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts 1976 Oct. 26
Honolulu, Hawaii
Whole Earth Book Store, Honolulu Hawaii 1976 Nov. 4
American Booksellers Association Convention, San Francisco, Calif. 1977 May 29-31
Conversations and Convergences: Three Asian Women Writers, UC Los Angeles 1978 Jan. 13
Association of Writers Forum and Boulder Public Library, Colo. 1978 Feb. 8-9
Association of Writers Forum and Boulder Public Library, Colo. 1978 Feb. 8-9
Academy of American Poets, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, N.Y. 1979 Nov. 6
Hawaii Performing Arts Company, Honolulu, Hawaii 1980 June 2-3
San Francisco International Poetry Festival, Palace of Fine Arts 1980 June 6-8
San Francisco International Poetry Festival, Palace of Fine Arts 1980 June 6-8
Hong Kong Arts Centre and United States Consulate General 1982 Apr. 2
Asian Pacific American Heritage Programs, Washington State University, Pullman 1983 Apr. 25
Maxine Hong Kingston and Clayton Eshlemna, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China 1986 Dec. 3
The Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, New York, N.Y. 1989 Apr. 3
Depot Bookstore and Café, Mill Valley, Calif. 1989 May 31
East Wind Books, San Francisco, Calif. 1989 June 10
San Francisco Public Library 1989 Oct. 21
Chinese American Librarians Association, Oakland, Calif. 1989 Nov. 13
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 1991 Oct. 28
The Inclusive University: Multicultural Perspectives In Higher Education, Oakland, Calif. 1991 Nov. 9
The Branson School Book Fair, Ross, Calif. 1991 Nov. 12
Major Authors Series, Institute of Letters, San Jose State University, Calif. 1991 Nov. 14
Major Authors Series, Institute of Letters, San Jose State University, Calif. 1991 Nov. 14
Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, Calif. 1991 Dec. 28
University of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. 1992 Feb. 3
The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America, Black Oak Books, Berkeley, Calif. 1993 Mar. 10
The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America, Black Oak Books, Berkeley, Calif. 1993 Mar. 10
The Cowell Theater, Berkeley, Calif. 1993 Mar. 12
Berkeley Public Library, [CD Collections] 1993, 1996
Charlie Chan is Dead, Black Oak Books, Berkeley, Calif. 1994 Jan. 23
The Fifth Book of Peace, College of Wooster, Ohio 1994 Apr. 4
Writer-Veterans, A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, San Francisco, Calif. 1994 May 10
An Evening for Viet Nam Veterans, Black Oak Books, Berkeley, Calif. 1994 May 23
Women of Color Resource Center Theatre Party and Reception, Zellerbach Playhouse, UC Berkeley 1994 June 5
Reading from The Woman Warrior , Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. 1994 Nov. 21
Herbst Theater, San Francisco, Calif. 1995 Feb. 9
Writing Out of War: Veterans Writing from Experience Small Press Distribution, Berkeley, Calif. 1995 Nov. 11
Remembering Our Mothers, San Francisco Marriott, Calif. 1996 Oct. 12
Highway 99: A Literary Journey, California Historical Society, San Francisco 1997 Apr. 5
Racing Toward the Millennium: Voices from the Los Angeles Public Library, Calif. 1998 Feb. 15
American Booksellers Association, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 1998 May 1
Hawaii Literary Arts Council, University of Hawaii, Honolulu undated
Radio and Television
CKVU Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 1977 Feb. 16
Dick Cavett Show 1980 Aug. 11
Writers and Places: Gold Mountain Heroes 1982 May 29
Writers and Places: Maxine Hong Kingston in California 1982 May 30
Dialog 1983 Mar. 25
World of Ideas with Bill Moyers 1990 Feb. 25
Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story 1990 June 27
Journey to the West 1992 Oct. 12
BBC Interview 1994 May
The New Year Celebration 1995 Feb. 1
Interview with Ronn Owens undated
Book Tours
Knopf National Tour for Woman Warrior 1976 Oct.
Knopf National Tour for China Men 1980 June
Knopf National Tour for China Men paperback edition 1981 May
Chinese Writers World Wide 1992 Oct.
Clippings 1992 Oct.
Hong Kong Tour 1993 Oct.
Corridors of Culture 1994 Apr.
Miscellaneous undated
Miscellaneous undated
Business Files
Contracts
Woman Warrior 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1983
China Men 1977, 1980
Film Rights 1978, 1982-83
Miscellaneous 1987
Contributions and Endorsements
"Won for All: A Cooperative Game About Minorities And Women in American History" Educational Board Game 1970's
A Salute to Women in the Creative and Performing Arts 1977 Aug. 1
Poetry Hawaii: A Contemporary Anthology by Frank Stewart and John Unterecker, editors 1979
Poets for Peace 1982
Contemporary Asian Americans Educational Poster Sets 1982
Check Out a Great Author poster 1982
Women's History Week 1983
The National Reading: Writers Harvest for the Homeless 1992 Sept. 3
Benefit for The Paris Review 1993 Oct. 28
Contemporary Asian Americans Educational Poster Sets 1993
Asian Pacific Americans in Focus Calendar 1995
National Women's History Project 1995
Oakland Convention and Visitors Authority 1995
Voices of Diversity, Educational Poster Sets 1995
Letters for Literacy Auction 1996 Dec. 6
Library Media Center: Great Authors Posters 1996
Women's History Week 1996
Bread and Roses Cultural Project 1998
Permissions, Royalties, and Copyrights
Permissions 1979-88
Royalty Checks 1977-90, 1992
Foreign Royalty Checks 1978-88
Royalty Summaries 1975-85
Copyrights 1980-87
Miscellaneous Financial Statements 1978-81, undated
Alfred A. Knopf Royalty Statements 1976-90
Series 5 Teaching Career 1970-1996
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Colleges and Universities. 1970-1992
Mid-Pacific Institute, Manoa, Hawaii 1970
University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii 1972
UC Berkeley Department of English 1992, undated
Seminars
International Colloquium on the Cross-Culture Encounter in Literature, Honolulu, Hawaii 1977 Oct. 17-28
Talk Story, Hawaii's Ethnic American Writers' Conference, Honolulu 1978 June 19-24
Berkeley Writers Conference, UC Extension 1979 June 23-30
Inter Arts Hawaii Writing Workshops, Honolulu 1979 July 16
Inter Arts Hawaii Writing Workshops, Honolulu 1979 July 16
Michigan Writers Conference for High School Students East Michigan University, Detroit 1979 Nov. 10
Michigan Writers Conference for High School Students East Michigan University, Detroit 1979 Nov. 10
Asian Pacific American Women's Conference Honolulu, Hawaii 1980 Apr. 25-26
Cross-Culture Writers' Workshop Anchorage, Alaska 1981 Aug. 21-23
Cross-Culture Writers' Workshop Anchorage, Alaska 1981 Aug. 21-23
Writers' Week at the Adelaide Festival 1982 Mar. 7-13
U.S.- Chinese Writers Conference 1982 Oct.
From Script to Screen: A Conference on Screenwriting Honolulu, Hawaii 1982 Nov. 11-14
Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program University of Oklahoma, Norman 1983 Feb. 17-23
San Jose Poetry Center Writers' Residency San Jose, Calif. 1983 Mar. 4-7
San Jose Poetry Center Writers' Residency San Jose, Calif. 1983 Mar. 4-7
U.S.-Chinese Writers Conference UC Los Angeles, Calif. 1983 Oct.
The Second American Literature Forum from the Chinese Community, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China 1984
Asian American Arts Conference San Francisco, Calif. 1991 May 2
Novel of the Americas Symposium University of Colorado, Boulder 1992 Sept. 8-25
Writers Crossing Cultural Borders University of Oregon, Eugene 1994 Nov. 20-21
Women's Studies Seminar, College of Wooster College of Wooster, Ohio 1994 Dec.
Scholarship-Leadership Enrichment Program, University of Oklahoma, Norman 1994
Chinese American Writers Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China 1995 Apr. 2-8
American Literature Forum of the Chinese 1995 Apr.
San Francisco Bay Area Writers Workshop 1995 Fall
Multicultural Peace Plenary San Francisco, Calif. 1996 June 10
Wise Women Working Berkeley, Calif. 1996 Nov. 15
Clippings 1978-93
Series 6 Personal and Family Papers 1952-1994
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Education
Lafayette Elementary School, Stockton, California 1952 Jan. 11
Edison High School, Stockton, California 1958-59
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California 1960-64
Awards and Scholarships
Non-Fiction Award, American Girl Magazine 1956 Apr. 10
"Most Valuable Student", Elks National Foundation Scholarship application 1958
University of California Regents? Scholarship 1958-59
California State Scholarship Commission 1960-61
Clippings 1958
Family Correspondence
Baireuther, Tami-Diane 1967-69
Hong, Ann Marie 1993-94
Hong, George and Putsy 1967-80
Hong, Joseph 1968-83
Hong, Norman 1967-69
Hong, Tanya Renae 1992
Hong, Tom and Ling Lan 1967-76
Hong, Windi 1978-82
Kingston, Earll 1968-96
Kingston, Joseph 1980-84
Lam, Lucy 1981-94
Newkirk, Karen 1993, undated
Newkirk, Paul and Carmen Hong 1968-92
Nicolas, Cher 1980, 1991, undated
Nicolas, Tom and Corrinne Hong 1967-85
Invitations 1994, undated
"Hawaii Goodbye to Max and Earll" undated
Miscellaneous
King, Earll M. and Mary 1936
Hong, Corrine 1967
Ephemera undated
Miscellaneous undated
Photographs 1958, undated