This chapter traces the arc of Maxine Hong Kingston's career focusing on her evolving artistic and social vision. It explores the body of her work from The Woman Warrior and China Men to her novel Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book and her more recent books The Fifth Book of Peace and I Love a Broad Margin to My Life. The chapter reanimates the critical reception of her oeuvre through the multiple vantage points of Asian American studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, and theory. It outlines The Woman Warrior's contribution to early debates about Asian American identity and cultural authenticity. The chapter examines the affinities of her work to feminism and postmodernism. While exploring the affinities between Asian American texts and postmodern or modernist literary constructions has helped Asian American critics to move beyond merely ethnographic or sociological study, David Palumbo-Liu emphasizes the importance of historically locating such literatures and their aesthetic modes.