China Men

Summary

A companion to "The Woman Warrior" that recovers the buried history of Chinese male immigration to America through the lives of Kingston's father, grandfathers, and uncles. She weaves railroad labor, sugarcane fields, exclusion laws, and Vietnam-era enlistment into a multigenerational chronicle of erasure and endurance. Mixing folklore with archival fact, the book restores men cast as silent laborers to the foreground of American history.