| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第8-15页 |
| CHAPTER ONE THE IDENTITY DILEMMA OF IMMIGRANT MOTHERS AND AMERICAN-BORN DAUGHTERS | 第15-38页 |
| ·THE IMMIGRANT MOTHERS’IDENTITY DILEMMA AND SILENCE | 第17-28页 |
| ·Silenced by the Patriarchal Society | 第17-24页 |
| ·Silenced by the White-centered Society | 第24-27页 |
| ·Silenced by the Past Sufferings | 第27-28页 |
| ·THE AMERICAN-BORN DAUGHTERS’IDENTITY DILEMMA AND SILENCE | 第28-38页 |
| ·Daughters’Denial of Chinese Identity and Ancestral Culture | 第28-32页 |
| ·Marginalized by the Mainstream Culture | 第32-38页 |
| CHAPTER TWO THE CONFLICT BETWEEN IMMIGRANT MOTHERS AND AMERICAN-BORN DAUGHTERS | 第38-49页 |
| ·THE SILENCE BETWEEN MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS | 第38-42页 |
| ·DAUGHTER’S RESISTANCE TOWARDS MATERNAL POWER | 第42-46页 |
| ·DAUGHTERS REGARD MOTHERS AS THE “OTHER” | 第46-49页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THE AWAKING AND SILENCE-BREAKING OF THE CHINESE AMERICAN WOMEN | 第49-60页 |
| ·THE RECONCILIATION OF MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS | 第49-57页 |
| ·The Inducement to the Mothers and Daughters to Break the Silence | 第49-50页 |
| ·The Silence-breaking of Mothers to Empower Daughters | 第50-54页 |
| ·The Daughters’Return to Ancestral Culture | 第54-57页 |
| ·QUEST FOR NEW CULTURAL IDENTITY UNDER MULTICULTURALISM | 第57-60页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第60-63页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第63-66页 |