Chinese-American authors have played a very influential role in highlighting the atrocities of their native culture and in
illustrating the
problems that immigrants encounter when they move to the United States. The paper looks at the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston who termed all her problems and various
cultural, ethnic and cultural obstacles as 'Ghosts' in her novel, 'The Woman Warrior'. This paper delves deeper into the subject of ghosts and explains what ghosts represented in this novel.