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The middle portion of this chapter is Kingston ’ s retelling of the No Name Woman Story.

Kingston uses her own experiences with Chinese tradition and culture to substantiate alternate “ versions ” of the tale.

For instance, she questions No Name Woman ’ s agency in her own pregnancy.

She first proposes that No Name Woman must have been raped, since “ Women in the old China did not choose .” When she later tries to imagine a more sexually liberated No Name Woman, her own experiences interject: