King-Kok Cheung is an American literary critic specializing in

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and is a professor in the department of English at

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. Cheung grew up on

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. Cheung received her Ph.D. in English from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1984. Selected bibliography *''Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography'', 1988 (with Stan Yogi) *''Articulate Silences:

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Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston (; born Maxine Ting Ting Hong;Huntley, E. D. (2001). ''Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion'', p. 1. October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, wher ...

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'', 1993 *''An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature'', 1996 (editor) *''Words Matter: Conversations With Asian American Writers'', 2000 (editor)Reviews of ''Words Matter'': * * *''Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. Revised and Updated with four new stories'', 2001 (introduction) *''Heath Anthology of American Literature'', Fifth Edition, 2006 (co-editor) *''Chinese American Literature Without Borders, 2016 (Author)''

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