| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第12-20页 |
| 0.1 Amy Tan and The Valley of Amazement | 第12-13页 |
| 0.2 Literature Review | 第13-16页 |
| 0.3 Research Motivation and Research Significance | 第16页 |
| 0.4 Cultural Identity | 第16-20页 |
| Chapter 1 The Change from Submission to Resistance in Gender Identity | 第20-40页 |
| 1.1 As Courtesans: from Numbness to Awakening | 第20-26页 |
| 1.1.1 Suffering in Silence | 第21-24页 |
| 1.1.2 Awaking and Striving | 第24-26页 |
| 1.2 As Wives and Concubines: from Subordination to Independence | 第26-33页 |
| 1.2.1 Subordination of Perpetual’s Wife and Concubines | 第29-31页 |
| 1.2.2 Violet’s Self-Redemption and Pomelo’s Awakening | 第31-33页 |
| 1.3 As Mothers and Daughters: from Disharmony to Reconciliation | 第33-40页 |
| 1.3.1 As a Mother with Unified Natural and Social Identity | 第33-34页 |
| 1.3.2 As a Mother with Natural but No Social Identity | 第34-36页 |
| 1.3.3 As a Mother with Social but No Natural Identity | 第36-40页 |
| Chapter 2 The Change from Mono-culture to Hybridity in Ethnic Identity | 第40-62页 |
| 2.1 Westerners: Influenced by Chinese Culture | 第40-48页 |
| 2.1.1 Lulu | 第40-46页 |
| 2.1.2 John Minturn | 第46-48页 |
| 2.2 Chinese People: Influenced by Western Culture | 第48-56页 |
| 2.2.1 Diaspora | 第48-54页 |
| 2.2.2 Chinese People Living in Semi-colonial and Semi-feudal China | 第54-56页 |
| 2.3 Violet, A Mixblood: from Extreme to Moderation | 第56-62页 |
| 2.3.1 Hybrid Race as a Minority | 第57-58页 |
| 2.3.2 Hybrid Language | 第58-62页 |
| Conclusion | 第62-64页 |
| Works Cited | 第64-68页 |
| 攻读学位期间发表的学术论文目录 | 第68-69页 |
