Abstract

The famous Chinese-American writer Maxine Hong Kingston's work, "Chinese: Jinshan Warriors", recorded over a hundred years experience of Chinese immigrants in North America. Novel in the fictional text, interspersed blend of Chinese immigrants in the legend, stories and historical facts on record, breaking the realism, the limitations of biography and history books, readers can explore and discover the original silent in English in the Chinese context, the development of the United States actually make a significant contribution to the founding hero - Gold Mountain Warriors, just because white culture, prejudice and discrimination have been obscured and distorted. Meanwhile, the author seeks to create a dialogue when writing of the discourse space and take the way of black humor, subversion of the performance of the Chinese American Orientalism and the fixed pattern "Yellow Peril" myth. Known as the author of The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston's second book China Men, a metafictive history of Chinese laborers' experience in America since the mid-19th century, is more important a book, a prerequisite for anyone interested in the study of American culture and history, US-China diplomatic and race relations, as it tells many stones that are lost in history. From a postmodern and postcolonial theoretical perspective, this essay explores the literary activism postmodern metafiction performs in a dialogue between history and literature, fiction and non-fiction; it demonstrates, how postmodern fictive forms, such as spatial juxtaposition, black humor, and hypothetical conclusions, effectively question the records of history, and mock the stereotypes of Chinamen and the myth of the Yellow Peril in American Orientalism. It calls critical attention to the rich historical vision and material embedded in this American classic