Tripmaster Monkey

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
First edition
AuthorMaxine Hong Kingston
LanguageEnglish [1]
PublisherVintage Books USA[1]
Publication date
1990[1]
Publication placeUnited States [1]
ISBN978-0-679-72789-7 [1]

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book is the third book written by Maxine Hong Kingston, and was published in 1989. The story follows Wittman Ah Sing, an American graduate of University of California, Berkeley of Chinese ancestry in his adventures about San Francisco during the 1960s. Heavily influenced by the Beat movement, and exhibiting many prototypical features of postmodernism, the book retains numerous themes, such as ethnicity and prejudice, addressed in Kingston's other works. The novel is rampant with allusions to pop-culture and literature, especially the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West.[2]

  1. ^ a b c d e Kingston, Maxine Hong (1990). Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book. Vintage International. ISBN 978-0-679-72789-7.[page needed]
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Wang was invoked but never defined (see the help page).