When Tiger Mothers Meet Sugar Sisters: Strategic Representations of Chinese Cultural Elements in Maxine Hong Kingston's and Amy Tan's Works

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When Tiger Mothers Meet Sugar Sisters: Strategic Representations of Chinese Cultural Elements in Maxine Hong Kingston's and Amy Tan's Works

This thesis examines how Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan use Chinese cultural elements as strategies to challenge stereotypes of Chinese Americans in the United States. The project combines literary and cultural studies approaches to explore how these Chinese elements in the two authors’ works inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Huang, Sheng
Format:	Thesis
Published:	Curtin University 2017
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68289

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