Tripmaster Monkey

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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book published by Maxine Hong Kingston in 1989. The story follows Wittman Ah Sing, a American graduate of University of California, Berkeley of Chinese ancestry in his adventures about San Francisco during the 1960s. Heavily influenced by the Beat movement, and exhibiting many prototypical symptoms of postmodernism, the book retains numerous themes, such as ethnicity and prejudice, addressed in Kingston's other works. The novel is rampant with allusions to pop-culture and literature, especially utilizing Chinese tradition.