Books
August, 1980
The myth of the American West has surfaced once again and with it nostalgia for the lives of those sturdy pioneers, the great white immigrants who farmed their way across the frontier. Maxine Hong Kingston, in China Men (Knopf), gives a different version of the American pioneer; she relates extraordinary stories about the Chinese men who smuggled themselves into the U. S., who moved mountains for the railroads and who went mad with guilt and grief for their families left behind. This is a powerf...
