... same fate fall upon her. Kingston, looking back on the story later, thinks about the world in which she was raised, an "invisible world" of ghosts transposed from Chinese rural life into the emigrants' new homes in America. Because Kingston cannot ask about her unnamed aunt "who is referred to only as " ... role, wearing male armor and commanding men who fight under her. She ties her hair up and actually pretends she is a man to intimidate her enemies. It is interesting to note that her weapon, in this fantasy, is a magical "Sky Sword" "not an actual sword that might be heavy or unwieldy...

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