King-Kok Cheung

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King-Kok Cheung is an American literary critic specializing in Asian American literature and is a professor in the department of English at UCLA.[1]

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King-Kok Cheung
OccupationProfessor
NationalityAmerican
GenreFiction
Literary criticism
Notable worksArticulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa
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Cheung grew up on Hong Kong Island.[2]

Cheung received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.

Selected bibliography

  • Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography, 1988 (with Stan Yogi)[3]
  • Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston', Joy Kogawa, 1993[4]
  • An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature, 1996 (editor)[5]
  • Words Matter: Conversations With Asian American Writers, 2000 (editor)[6]
  • 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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