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Maxine Hong Kingston: `No Name Woman`

Maxine Hong Kingston : `No Name Woman`

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June 2 , 2007

Maxine Hong Kingston : `No Name Woman`

In the story `No Name Woman , Maxine Hong Kingston describes unique experience of women in China and social relations existing in the Chinese society . The continued existence of the "traditional " Chinese family pattern or some reasonable compromise thereof is often explained as necessary to the Chinese way of life , when , in fact , the way of life referred to has ceased to exist . This sometimes leads an author

to ignore the fact that the family referred to may be a survival of an institution past its time as a functional prerequisite of the system in which it occurs rather than a prerequisite of the general system currently extant . The story vividly portrays social life of Chinese village people , oppression and male dominance affecting family relations and destinies of women . The main questions are : What is the role of a family unit and an individual in Chinese society ? What is the impact of social status and position of women on family structure and sexual relations , What is the role of economic relations in Chinese village and their impact on a family unit

The story can be interpreted as a historical discourse which unveils family structure and family relations excising in the society . From the story , readers know that in each kinship structure there are certain generalized structural requirements which must be satisfied if the structure is to continue its existence . Maxine Hong Kingston depicts that it is essential that some distinctions on a sexual basis be brought out in every kinship structure , but the same is also true for the society as a whole . Kingston describes

All the village were kinsmen , and the titles shouted in loud country voices never let kinship be forgotten . Any man within visiting distance would have been neutralized as a lover- "brother . younger brother "older brother "--one hundred and fifteen relationship titles (Kingston n .d

The role differentiation of women relative to men in the kinship structure can never vary independently of that for women in the society at large

The question of education in terms of family structure is an extremely broad and complex subject addressed by Kingston . Three factors are always of great importance in such educational structures . In general these are (1 ) the content of the education (2 ) the methods by which it is taught , and (3 ) the person or persons who carry out the teaching There is a tendency to devote a larger proportion of one 's concern to what is taught than to the other two categories (Stockman 27 . Kingston describes that the methods used , the systems of rewards and punishments by which the learning process is bolstered , and the roles of the primary teachers are of equal importance

The above remarks apply to family education in general and that of children raised from birth within the family in particular . Some special mention must also be made of the education...

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