| Acknowledgements | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-16页 |
| 1. Qiu Xiaolong and His “Detective Series” | 第7-8页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第8-11页 |
| 3. Theoretical Framework | 第11-16页 |
| Chapter One The Fall of a Dancer: Wen Liping’s Identity Loss | 第16-25页 |
| 1.1 Wen Liping’s experience of being bullied and sexually abused | 第16-19页 |
| 1.2 The Victim Identity Exposed in Ellipsis | 第19-22页 |
| 1.3 The Loss of Identity | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Two Becoming a Murderer: Jia Ming’s Self-Destruction | 第25-35页 |
| 2.1 Bereavement experience of Jia Ming | 第25-28页 |
| 2.2 Trauma Re-Experiencing Conveyed by Pause and Repetition | 第28-30页 |
| 2.3 The Destruction of Identity | 第30-35页 |
| Chapter Three Chen Chao’s Self Therapy: A Poet Inspector | 第35-47页 |
| 3.1 Flashback and Indirect Collective Trauma | 第35-38页 |
| 3.2 Identity Reconstruction In “Speech Bubbles” | 第38-43页 |
| 3.3 Chen Chao as the Substitute of Qiu Xiaolong: the Ideal Identity | 第43-47页 |
| Conclusion | 第47-49页 |
| Bibliography | 第49-51页 |