| Abstract in English | 第1页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第3-5页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第5-11页 |
| ·Development of Chinese American Literature | 第5-6页 |
| ·An Introduction to Amy Tan and The Joy Luck Club | 第6-11页 |
| ·Amy Tan and her literary position | 第6-9页 |
| ·An introduction to The Joy Luck Club | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review and Methodology | 第11-20页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Writing Purpose | 第12-14页 |
| ·Methodology | 第14-20页 |
| ·An introduction to post-colonialism | 第14-15页 |
| ·Said and His Orientalism | 第15-17页 |
| ·Homi Bhabha and his “Third Space” | 第17-20页 |
| Chapter 3 Mothers and Daughters as Other | 第20-43页 |
| ·Ethnic Other | 第20-29页 |
| ·The historical background | 第20-24页 |
| ·Mothers as Other | 第24-26页 |
| ·Daughters as Other | 第26-29页 |
| ·Gender Other | 第29-36页 |
| ·The social background | 第29-31页 |
| ·The Joy Luck mothers and their mothers | 第31-35页 |
| ·Both the Joy Luck mothers and their daughters as Other | 第35-36页 |
| ·Language Other | 第36-40页 |
| ·The historical background | 第36-37页 |
| ·Mothers and daughters in a bilingual world | 第37-40页 |
| ·Cultural Other | 第40-43页 |
| ·The social background | 第40页 |
| ·The cultural values divergence between mothers and daughters | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter 4 Alliance between Others | 第43-51页 |
| ·Alliance from Ethnic Perspective | 第44-46页 |
| ·Alliance from Gender Perspective | 第46-47页 |
| ·Alliance from Language Perspective | 第47-48页 |
| ·Alliance from Cultural Perspective | 第48-51页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第51-53页 |
| Notes | 第53-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-61页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第61-62页 |
| PUBLICATIONS | 第62页 |
