| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-9页 |
| Preface in Chinese | 第9-17页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ: Introduction | 第17-23页 |
| A． A brief introduction to Maxine Hong Kingston's life and works | 第17-19页 |
| B． Asian American literary tradition and Kingston | 第19-21页 |
| C． Critical reception and public recognition | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ: Kingston in the postmodern context | 第23-27页 |
| A． Major figures of postmodernist theory: Ihab Hassan, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Fredric Jameson | 第23-25页 |
| B． Main features ofpostmodemist literary works | 第25-26页 |
| C． New interpretations of Postmodernism in Kingston's major work | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ: The Woman Warrior: rewriting female Bildungsroman | 第27-41页 |
| A． Traditional definition of Bildungsroman and the outburst of female Bildungsroman | 第27-28页 |
| B． Female Bildungsroman rewritten by ethnic women writer, Kingston as an example | 第28-33页 |
| C． Postmodern reading: The Woman Warrior as a female Bildungsroman | 第33-41页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ: China Men: interweaving paternal memory and maternal discourse | 第41-46页 |
| A． Intertextual dialogues in the text | 第41-44页 |
| B． Memory of male ancestors, maternal discourse and androgynous quality in subjectivity | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ: Tripmaster Monkey: questing on the road | 第46-54页 |
| A． The ”on-the-road” thematic pattern in canonical American literature and its variants in ethnic writings | 第46-48页 |
| B． Postmodern ethnic humor and postmodern characterization | 第48-54页 |
| Conclusion: Writing as life and quest | 第54-60页 |
