• Friedman catalogs the benefits and pitfalls of globalization in a text so clearly written and with so many examples that one easily forgets that this is a book about economics. Reader's of Friedman's column will recognize many of these concepts. Well written, cogently argued, thought-provoking, and very highly recommended. --Patrick J. Brunet, Library Journal.
• A brilliant guidebook to the new world of "globalization'' by Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist Friedman (From Beirut to Jerusalem, 1988). In simplest terms, Friedman defines globalization as the world integration of finance markets, nation states, and technologies within a free market capitalism on a scale never before experienced. Friedman's discussion is wonderfully accessible, clarifying the complex with enlightening stories that simplify but are never simplistic. Artful and opinionated, complex and cantankerous; simply the best book yet written on globalization. --Kirkus Associates, LP.
• Friedman explains in wonderfully clear language just what globalization is, how it is affecting people and nations, and why a backlash is both inevitable and healthy. He uses great anecdotes from street vendors in Asia to bankers in Europe to crisply explain each point. -- World News Guide | The Mining Co
• INSIGHT AND ELOQUENCE characterize Freedman's foreign affairs columns in the New York Times and they elevate this book. He has exceptionally good judgment and the energy of an intrepid traveler, so there is a street-truth to his arguments, illuminated with vivid stories. -- Global Business Network

"Thomas L. Friedman Thomas L. Friedman is one of America's leading interpreters of world affairs. Born in Minneapolis in 1953, he was educated at Brandeis University and St. Antony's College, Oxford. His first book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, won the National Book Award in 1988. Mr. Friedman has also won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting for The New York Times as bureau chief in Beirut and in Jerusalem. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Ann, and their daughters, Orly and Natalie."

Maxine Hong Kingston was born in Stockton, California, the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Her father was a scholar in China and her mother a trained mid-wife. In this country, they became field hands and laundry workers. In her book, The Woman Warrior, Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Hong Kingston "blends myth, legend, history and autobiography into a genre of her own invention." (Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1980) Hong Kingston incorporates her inherited skill of "talk-stories" learned from her mother with memories of her own life and experiences. The book hovers along a hazy line of fiction and nonfiction.

A National Book Critics Award winner, The Woman Warrior relates Hong Kingston's efforts to bridge her Chinese culture and American upbringing. She explores ancient Chinese stories, including the tale of Da Mu Lan, recently Disneyfied as Mulan, by examining her literary inheritance to find relevance in her past and present. Maxine Hong Kingston currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of several books, both novels and poetry and is currently working on a fifth novel.

The Chinese American writer Maxine Hong Kingston burst upon the literary scene burst upon the scene in 1976 with her best selling category defying Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. These stories also inform "China Men" which does for father and the male side of the of the family what the earlier book had done for the women. "China Men" won the American Book Award for Nonfiction. Both books were praised for illuminating completely alien lives and feelings. Kingston's first novel, "Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book" by contrast, has its protagonist an amusing fifth generation Chinese American hippie named Whitman Ag Sing ( after Walt Whitman), who in 1960's San Francisco dreams of writing the Chinese American play.

• Links to links! Here is a review of various "Hong Kingson" websites:
  http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/awg_kingston.htm
  
  
• Links to extensive biographical and bibliographic overviews of Ms. Hong Kingson and her work:
  http://voices.cla.umn.edu/Authors/MaxineHongKingston.html#bookcover
  http://www.cc.nctu.edu.tw/~pcfeng/CALF/ch1.htm
  http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/canam/kingston.htm
  http://www.llcc.cc.il.us/womencen/womenslit/Kingston.htm
  
  
• Interviews with Ms. Hong Kingson
  http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/ms/hong.htm
  http://www.igc.apc.org/pacifica/programs/celebrate/_w_kingston.htm
  
  
• A selected bibliography of Ms. Hong Kingson's work: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/Authors/maxinehongkingston.html#Bibliography
  

• Academic Related Sites:
  • A guide to teaching with Ms. Hong Kingston's work from Amy Ling writing for Houghton Mifflin Company: http://college.hmco.com/English/heath/syllabuild/iguide/kingston.html
    
    
  • The "Maxine Hong Kingston Teacher Resource Guide" at: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/kingston.htm
    
    
  • University of Pennsylvania 's Peter Conn's study guide: http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~prp/pconn/
    
    
  • Study Questions for Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior from Albert Sheen, a Ph.D. student in English literature at UW-Madison:
    http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~aesheen/Eng208-2-1999/kingstonsq.htm
    
    
  • Study Questions from Harvard College
    http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~hsa33/assignments/kingston.htm
    
    
  • An academic unit from Thomas Charmley who teaches English 100 at Canada College: http://www.pls.lib.ca.us/smcccd/faculty/charmley/unit3.html
    
    
  • A diary assignment from high school teacher, Doug Garrett: http://www.lghs.net/faculty/dgarrett/english10x/woman_warrior_diary.htm
    
    
  • Storytelling assignment: http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/borders/chap4top.html
    
    
  • A sample student essay on Ms. Hong Kingston's work called "The Clash of Writing Styles in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior" by Lindsay Mochal: http://parallel.park.uga.edu/~tengles/identity/mochal.html
    
    
• Chinese Women:
  http://www.span.com.au/100women/
  
  
• Chinese-American Literature:
  The "Ayatollah of Asian America" versus the "Woman Warrior" Remarks on the Chinese American Literary War at: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~amerika/tp/tp_309.htm