| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-8页 |
| Preface in Chinese | 第8-14页 |
| Introduction | 第14-19页 |
| Chapter One Early Chinese Writings and Its Background (1785-1882) | 第19-28页 |
| A. Early Social Background in China and America | 第19-21页 |
| B. An anti-Chinese Sentiment and the Settlement in Chinatown | 第21-23页 |
| C. The Obliterated Voices of Early Chinese Immigrants | 第23-25页 |
| D. Continual Chinese Migration despite the Chinese Exclusion Act | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Two Chinese American Writings During the Exclusion Era (1882-1943) | 第28-49页 |
| A. Autobiographies and Other Writings | 第28-43页 |
| 1 Ambassadors of Goodwill | 第28-35页 |
| a. Illustrating a Magnificent China: When I Was a Boy in China (1887) | 第29-32页 |
| b. Meeting of Two Civilizations: America through the Spectacles of An Oriental Diplomat (1914) | 第32-35页 |
| 2 An Americanized Chinese: My Life in China and America (1909) | 第35-38页 |
| 3 A Eurasian's Unceasing Fight against Racism: Sui Sin Far and her Writings | 第38-43页 |
| B. Sad Wails on Angel Island: Poetry (1910-1940) | 第43-49页 |
| Chapter Three Chinatown Stories, In and Out (1943-1965) | 第49-69页 |
| A. Seeking Acceptance by American Society: Autobiographies of the Second Generation | 第50-59页 |
| 1 First Generation ABC's Dilemma and Choice: Father and Glorious Descendant (1943) | 第50-52页 |
| 2 Standing for Young Chinese American Females: The success of Fifth Chinese Daughter (1945) | 第52-59页 |
| B. Establishing a New Balance: Novels on Bachelor Society | 第59-65页 |
| 1 Inevitable Change from the Old to the New: The Flower Drum Song (1957) | 第59-61页 |
| 2 A Farewell to Bachelorhood: Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961) | 第61-65页 |
| C. Eurasians' Struggle for Identity: The Frontiers of Love (1956) | 第65-69页 |
| Conclusion | 第69-71页 |
| Works Cited | 第71-74页 |
| Works Consulted | 第74-76页 |
