Abstract:

Maxine Hong Kingston, a famous Chinese American writer, in her newly published novel Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, through her use of intertextuality and pastiche, reveals a crisis of i-dentity and sense of displacement among ethnic Chinese Americans. As an intertextual novel, Tripmaster Monkey bases itself on the traditional Chinese classic, The Story of the Monkey, and other Chinese and Western texts to illustrate the transformation of Chinese American identity, thus serving as a good example of the influence and transplantation of postmodern intertextuality.

Key words: intertextuality, Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book