| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Literature Review | 第15-25页 |
| ·Studies on Chinese Ancestor Worship | 第15-20页 |
| ·Folk Religion in Contrast to Institutional Religion | 第15-17页 |
| ·Religious Ritual Related to Social Structure | 第17-19页 |
| ·A Reflection of Social Relationship | 第19-20页 |
| ·Ancestor Worship in Confucian Classics | 第20-22页 |
| ·Ancestor "Veneration" Instead of "Worship" | 第22-23页 |
| ·Bringing Together Discourse and Cultural Studies | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Studying Chinese Ancestor Veneration from Discursive and Cultural Perspectives | 第25-40页 |
| ·"Superstition" or "Cultural Heritage": A Discourse Perspective | 第25-36页 |
| ·The Notion of Discourse as a Social Practice | 第26-27页 |
| ·A Critique of the Discourses of "Superstition" and "Cultural Heritage" | 第27-36页 |
| The Emergence of "Superstition" Discourse in Modern China | 第28-32页 |
| Cultural Heritage as a Discourse | 第32-36页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第36页 |
| ·Looking for an Alternative in the Light of Cultural Studies | 第36-40页 |
| ·The Alliance of Critical Discourse Analysis and Cultural Studies | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Everydayness of "Culture" in Cultural Studies | 第37-38页 |
| ·Studying Ancestor Veneration as Lived Culture Against Grand Discourses | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Research Methodology | 第40-50页 |
| ·Ethnography as the Research Methodology | 第40-41页 |
| ·My Experiences of Data Collection | 第41-46页 |
| ·The First Attempt of Gathering Data in My Hometown | 第41-42页 |
| ·Participating in the Dongwushan Project | 第42-46页 |
| Accessing to the Village to Save the Perishing Culture | 第42-43页 |
| Difficulties in My Fieldwork | 第43-44页 |
| Reflections on the Research Experiences | 第44-46页 |
| ·Narrative as an Ethnographic Inquiry Method | 第46-50页 |
| ·Capturing People's Life through Narrative Inquiry | 第46-47页 |
| ·Narrative/ Story as a Way of Living and Inquiry | 第47-48页 |
| ·Narrative as a Way of Cultural Interpretation | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Narrative Description of Ancestor Veneration in Dongwushan | 第50-76页 |
| ·Ethnographic Description/Narrative: Thick Description | 第50-52页 |
| ·The Way the Stories are Told | 第52-53页 |
| ·Life Under the Ancestors' Shadow | 第53-70页 |
| ·Cultural Memories in the Ancestral Temple | 第53-60页 |
| Who is My Ancestor: Reconstruction of Women's of Self | 第54-58页 |
| Qingming Wine and Opera Performance in the Ancestral Temple | 第58-60页 |
| ·Coming Back Home in the Qingming Festival | 第60-62页 |
| ·Children Before Ancestral Graves: School Education or Local Knowledge | 第62-65页 |
| ·Feng-shui Under Ancestors' Shadow—Homeland Sentiment | 第65-70页 |
| The Swallow Nestle: Ancestor and Fengshui | 第65-68页 |
| The Phoenix Shadow: Attachment to Homeland | 第68-70页 |
| ·Discussion | 第70-76页 |
| ·The Three-level Harmony Brought by the Veneration of Ancestors | 第71-73页 |
| ·Empowerment of Local Knowledge and Cultural Critique of the Present through Narrative Description | 第73-76页 |
| Chapter Ⅵ Conclusion | 第76-78页 |
| Bibliography | 第78-82页 |
| Appendix 1 | 第82-87页 |
| Appendix 2 | 第87-88页 |
| Appendix 3 | 第88-89页 |
| Appendix 4 | 第89-95页 |
| 作者简介 | 第95页 |
