| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter One Chinese Americans’Paradise Lost in their cultural identity | 第13-35页 |
| ·Issues of identity | 第13-17页 |
| ·The connection between identity and representation | 第13-14页 |
| ·The discursive and dynamic feature of identity | 第14-17页 |
| ·Loss of cultural identity | 第17-26页 |
| ·Mothers’loss of original identity | 第17-20页 |
| ·Daughters’resistance to their ethnic identity | 第20-26页 |
| ·Mother-daughter conflict in Paradise Lost | 第26-35页 |
| ·Obstacle of language | 第27-29页 |
| ·Gap of culture | 第29-35页 |
| Chapter Two Chinese Americans’Paradise Regained in their cultural identity | 第35-49页 |
| ·New cognition of cultural identity | 第35-44页 |
| ·Inescapable ethnic discrimination | 第35-40页 |
| ·Genetically Chinese | 第40-42页 |
| ·Multi-cultural background | 第42-44页 |
| ·Mother-daughter bond in Paradise Regained | 第44-49页 |
| ·Blood connections | 第45-47页 |
| ·Culture connections | 第47-49页 |
| Conclusion | 第49-51页 |
| Bibliography | 第51-54页 |
