A World of Ideas; Maxine Hong Kingston Part 1 of 2

Collins, Michael · February 25, 1990

Maxine Hong Kingston was already celebrated for her memoirs THE WOMAN WARRIOR and CHINA MEN when she turned to fiction with TRIPMASTER MONKEY. And so was born Whitman Ah Sing, liberal arts major, theater director, and inventive social deviant. Through her bad boy hero, a young Chinese-American, Kingston wrote about the search for her own story. Part 1 of 2. A WORLD OF IDEAS with Bill Moyers aired in 1988 and 1990. The half-hour episodes featured scientists, writers, artists, philosophers, historians -- some well-known, many never before seen on television.