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Writing Beyond the Personal: History, Memoir, and Fiction in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Fifth Book of Peace

Abstract Simultaneous losses in life left Maxine Hong Kingston to ponder the meaning of existence and move from a personal to a collective level of mourning, which she relates to historical events such as Ch’in Shih Huang’s book burning, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Tiananmen Square massacre, the Second World War, and the Vietnam War. The Fifth Book of Peace rewrites the meaning of silence, reconstructing loss from a perspective of reconciliation and pondering the meaning of existence from a philosophical viewpoint. Kingston intertwines history and personal experience, transforming war and loss into a literature of peace.