| ABSTRACT | 第4-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| 1. INTRODUCTION | 第11-14页 |
| 1.1 A Brief Introduction to The Flower Drum Song and Writer C.Y. Lee | 第11-12页 |
| 1.2 Research Orientation and Objectives | 第12页 |
| 1.3 Thesis Structure | 第12-13页 |
| 1.4 The Theoretical and Practical Significances of the Research | 第13-14页 |
| 2. LITERATURE REVIEW | 第14-17页 |
| 2.1 The Status Quo of Related Research at Home and Abroad | 第14-16页 |
| 2.2 The Innovations of the Research in This Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| 3. MANICHEAN BINARY OPPOSITION:THE SELF AND THE OTHER | 第17-26页 |
| 3.1 Cultural Background: American Mainstream Ideology in the 1900s | 第17-21页 |
| 3.1.1 Influence of 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act | 第18-21页 |
| 3.2 The So-called "Assimilation" in the Major Characters | 第21-23页 |
| 3.2.1 "Social assimilation" in Madame Tang and Wang San | 第21页 |
| 3.2.2 "Spiritual assimilation" in Madame Tang and Wang Ta | 第21-22页 |
| 3.2.3 The truth of the "assimilation" in Madame Tang and Wang Chi-yang's sons | 第22-23页 |
| 3.3 The Reasons for Distortion and Depreciation toward the Other | 第23-26页 |
| 4. RE-CENTRALIZATION:SYMPATHETIC IDENTIFICATION AND IDENTITYCONSTRUCTION IN THE OTHER | 第26-59页 |
| 4.1 Interpolation: Duality in the Marginalized Other | 第27-33页 |
| 4.1.1 Sympathetic identification | 第28-30页 |
| 4.1.2 Cultural difference and cultural diversity | 第30-31页 |
| 4.1.3 Stability and variability | 第31-33页 |
| 4.2 Personage and Nation: Identity Re-centralization in the Other | 第33-52页 |
| 4.2.1 Symptomatic reading: the power of Agency in the major characters | 第34-39页 |
| 4.2.2 Subversion in Wang Ta's employment attitude | 第39-41页 |
| 4.2.3 Resistance in Wang Chi-yang's standpoint toward clothes and marriage | 第41-44页 |
| 4.2.4 Mimicry: the change in Wang Chi-yang's concept of money | 第44-47页 |
| 4.2.5 Hybirdity:coordination and communication among Wang Chi-yang and hissons | 第47-51页 |
| 4.2.6 Win-win effects for the re-centralization | 第51-52页 |
| 4.3 Cultural Mosaic: a Mix in the Self and the Other | 第52-59页 |
| 4.3.1 Writing: a way for the Other to express resistance consciousness | 第54-56页 |
| 4.3.2 Adoption of production: writing, printing, and publishing | 第56-57页 |
| 4.3.3 Distortion and depreciation toward the Other from the Others themselves | 第57-59页 |
| 5. SIGNIFICANCES OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN RE-CENTRALIZATION | 第59-63页 |
| 5.1 Awakening in the Major Characters | 第59-60页 |
| 5.2 Subverting Colonial Discourse and Denying the Master Narrative | 第60-61页 |
| 5.3 Deconstructing Colonial Power and Strengthening Dialogue between the Self andthe Other | 第61页 |
| 5.4 Re-centralization: Reconstructing the Image of Chinese Americans | 第61-63页 |
| 6. CONCLUSION | 第63-65页 |
| REFERENCES | 第65-67页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENT | 第67-68页 |
