A. Chinese culture influences Chinese-American literature. The most familiar in the field is the warrior traditions, male and female, advanced by Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston. B. In Chin's version, the warrior tradition in Chinese popular culture is best represented by Chinese classic novels like Water Margin and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It is a tradition of universal brotherhood, of taking justice into one's own hands when the country is ruled by a tyrant, of opposing the rich and powerful on behalf of the poor. C.Frank Chin resurrected this tradition in the late 1960s in order to recover Chinese masculinity against the white emasculation of Asian America. The Chinese-American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston's work The Woman Warrior invents the tradition of the woman warrior. The common emphasis on warrior in both types of cultural invention shows the urgency of Chinese-American writers waging a war of pens for minority rights.