| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8页 |
| Introduction | 第11-22页 |
| 1.Literature review | 第11-16页 |
| 2.Significance and Originality of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| 3.Research Methods and Theories Applied | 第17-18页 |
| 4.Outline of the Dissertation | 第18-22页 |
| I.The Image of Female Other | 第22-50页 |
| 1. “Ultimate Alien Other”:Victims of Patriarchal Society | 第23-31页 |
| 1.1 Silenced No Name Aunt | 第23-26页 |
| 1.2 Narrator’s Imagination about Her Aunt’s Life Experience | 第26-29页 |
| 1.3“Report is Vengeance” | 第29-31页 |
| 2.Psychologically Projected Other:The Woman Warrior | 第31-41页 |
| 2.1 Exodus of Fa Mulan | 第31-36页 |
| 2.2“Androgynous”Woman Warrior | 第36-39页 |
| 2.3 From“Her Story”to“My Story” | 第39-41页 |
| 3. “Self-Othering Narrator”:Cultural In-Betweener | 第41-50页 |
| 3.1 The Ambiguous“I” | 第41-46页 |
| 3.2 Analogy with Ts’ai Yen | 第46-50页 |
| II.The Image of Ghost | 第50-67页 |
| 1.Ghost Image as Metaphor:Ghost Culture in the China and America | 第51-56页 |
| 1.1 The prototype of Ghost Image in China | 第51-54页 |
| 1.2 The Prototype of Ghost Image in America | 第54-56页 |
| 2.Chinese Ghost:Revenge Spirit of No Name Aunt | 第56-60页 |
| 2.1 No Name Aunt as A Drowned Ghost | 第56-58页 |
| 2.2 No Name Aunt as A Wandering Ghost | 第58-60页 |
| 3.Foreign Ghost:Unfamiliar Other | 第60-67页 |
| 3.1 Foreign Ghost Image from Brave Orchid’s View | 第60-64页 |
| 3.2 Foreign Ghost Image from Narrator’s View | 第64-67页 |
| III.The Image of Chinese Neighborhood | 第67-98页 |
| 1.Chinese Village:Epitome of Patriarchal Society | 第67-73页 |
| 1.1 Ugly Image of Chinese Village under the Western Discourse Mechanism | 第68-70页 |
| 1.2 Theoretical Analysis of China Village Image | 第70-73页 |
| 2.Chinatown:Construction of“The Third Space” | 第73-86页 |
| 2.1“Chinese Elements”of Chinatown | 第75-83页 |
| 2.2 The Image of Chinatown:from“Spiritual Home”to“Cultural Trap” | 第83-86页 |
| 3.American Chinese Family:Mother and Daughter Dyad | 第86-98页 |
| 3.1 The Confrontation of Mother and Daughter | 第88-92页 |
| 3.2 Conditional Comprise between Mother and Daughter | 第92-98页 |
| Conclusion | 第98-100页 |
| Bibliography | 第100-105页 |
