The Book Prize Index

China Men

Maxine Hong Kingston

The author describes the Chinese experience in the U.S. through incidents from her childhood, the history of early Chinese immigrants, and Chinese myths and tales

Race & EthnicityRace & Ethnicity · medium confidenceRace & Ethnicity81 signalsLlm Classifier: Race & Ethnicity -> Race & EthnicityGoogle Books: History -> HistoryTopic Classifier: Black History & Culture -> Race & EthnicityBlack History & CultureCivil Rights & Racial JusticeMigration & Diaspora

Award History

1 wins · 3 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for General Nonfiction HardcoverMajor1981WinnerSecondary source
Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionMajor1981FinalistSecondary source
National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionMajor1980FinalistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • the U.S.40%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 35%.