| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| Introduction | 第13-20页 |
| 1. Research Background | 第14-16页 |
| 2. Research Methodology | 第16-17页 |
| 3. Research Significance | 第17-18页 |
| 4. Thesis Structure | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第20-28页 |
| 1.1 Studies on Chinese American Women Writers’ Works | 第20-24页 |
| 1.2 Studies on Cultural Identity in Chinese American Writers’ Works | 第24-28页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretic Foundation | 第28-38页 |
| 2.1 Stuart Hall’s Cultural Identity Theory | 第28-30页 |
| 2.2 Homi Bhabha’s Theory of Cultural Hybridity | 第30-34页 |
| 2.3 Young Yun Kim’s Intercultural Identity/Personhood | 第34-38页 |
| Chapter 3 Identity of Being either Chinese or American | 第38-61页 |
| 3.1 Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club | 第38-47页 |
| 3.1.1 Chinese Mothers Holding onto Chinese Roots | 第39-43页 |
| 3.1.2 American Daughters Struggling in Their Lives | 第43-47页 |
| 3.2 Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior | 第47-53页 |
| 3.2.1 Chinese Mother Narrating the Old World | 第48-50页 |
| 3.2.2 American Daughter Caught in Between | 第50-53页 |
| 3.3 Gish Jen’s Typical American | 第53-61页 |
| 3.3.1 The New Immigrants: Ralph, Theresa, and Helen | 第54-57页 |
| 3.3.2 Turning into “Typical American” | 第57-61页 |
| Chapter 4 Identity of Being both Chinese and American | 第61-76页 |
| 4.1 Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club | 第61-65页 |
| 4.1.1 Mothers-Daughters’ Reconciliation | 第62-64页 |
| 4.1.2 Daughters Reclaiming Chinese Roots | 第64-65页 |
| 4.2 Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior | 第65-71页 |
| 4.2.1 Daughter Translating Chinese Stories into American Culture | 第66-69页 |
| 4.2.2 Mother-Daughter Co-Storytelling | 第69-71页 |
| 4.3 Gish Jen’s Typical American | 第71-76页 |
| 4.3.1 Family Thing: “The Chinese Yankees” | 第72-73页 |
| 4.3.2 Awakening: Childhood in China | 第73-76页 |
| Chapter 5 Identity of Becoming Increasingly Intercultural | 第76-86页 |
| 5.1 Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior | 第76-80页 |
| 5.1.1 Multicultural Integration: The Earth’s Dances | 第77-78页 |
| 5.1.2 “Home” beyond Culture: The Citizen of the Planet | 第78-80页 |
| 5.2 Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land | 第80-86页 |
| 5.2.1 Crossing Boundary: Switching and Choosing One’s Identity | 第81-83页 |
| 5.2.2 Becoming instead of Being: Multicultural Hybridity | 第83-86页 |
| Chapter 6 Writers’ Evolving Process of Identity-Seeking | 第86-97页 |
| 6.1 Amy Tan’s “Chinese Characters and American Circumstances” | 第87-89页 |
| 6.2 Maxine Hong Kingston’s “We Belong to the Planet Now” | 第89-93页 |
| 6.3 Gish Jen’s “Possibilities despite the Limits” | 第93-97页 |
| Conclusion | 第97-104页 |
| References | 第104-109页 |
