The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts is the first published work by Maxine Hong Kingston, and occupies an important position in American contemporary literature. Throughout the five chapters of The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston presents a complex portrayal of Chinese American life in the 20th century. The Woman Warrior was named one of Time Magazine’s top nonfiction books of the 1970’s and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
 The Woman Warrior is considered to be a milestone of Chinese American literature, because it reveals Chinese American real life vividly. It resonates among different readers. Jeff Twitcher said in the preface of the translated Chinese version of it, “It undoubted that the common American readers are quite interested in this book mostly because they regard it as a Chinese fiction book, hence they found that Kingston’s vivid fictions contain foreign sentiments.”(Twitcher 8) Besides, Many people read The Woman Warrior from different perspectives, such as post-colonialism, borderline culture, youngsters’ confusion and rebel and so on. 汤婷婷《女勇士》华裔女性新身份(2):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_33063.html