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Kingston's White Tigers
In the second chapter, "White Tigers", Kingston juxtaposes the mythical and the personal. With her vivid imagination, she narrates and rewrites the story of the legendary Chinese woman warrior, Fu Mu Lan. The second portion of the chapter recounts Kingston's troubled and hushed existence as a Chinese American immigrant. She has to keep her pace with the modernization of the American community without being compromising her Chinese traditional upbringing.
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