About King-Kok Cheung
Born 1954. King-Kok Cheung is an American literary critic, journalist, scholar of English, literary scholar and professor.
King-Kok Cheung is an American literary critic specializing in Asian American literature and is a professor in the department of English at UCLA.
Early life Cheung grew up on Hong Kong Island.
Education 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) Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston', Joy Kogawa, 1993 An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature, 1996 (editor) Words Matter: Conversations With Asian American Writers, 2000 (editor) 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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American literary critic
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King-Kok Cheung was born in 1954.
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