In Tripmaster Money: His Fake Book，Maxine Hong Kingston inherits the European literary tradition of carnivalism．As a result，She displays her creative use of literary techniques of carnivalization by integrating her understanding of carnival spirit with the American ethnic experience，thus achieves a major breakthrough in both literary perspectives and artistic forms，showing that Chinese-American literature is not limited to the writing of Chinese-American experience，but is also rich in humanity spirit and has its own aesthetic pursuit．Kingston’s artistic exploration sheds new light on discussions on Chinese-American literature’s particularity and universality，and on queries of an ideology-orientation in Chinese -American literary criticism．