What is the setting of The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston?

The narrator grows up in Stockton, California, where she was born in 1940. The events that actually occur in her life take place in California. Her imagined warrior life and her mother's "talk stories," however, take place in China. For example, the story of No-Name Aunt, the ghost aunt, occurs in China from about 1924 to 1934. In the chapter "White Tigers," Kingston's imagined self as a woman warrior lives in ancient China. "Shaman" is Brave Orchid's story about her life in China as a medical student and doctor, prior to her coming to America in 1939.