| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第9-20页 |
| ·The focus, medium and significance of the thesis | 第9-11页 |
| ·A Survey of critical responses to A Passage to India | 第11-16页 |
| ·The theoretical perspectives | 第16-20页 |
| 2 Seeking dialogue and communication | 第20-36页 |
| ·The encounter of the West and the East | 第20-26页 |
| ·The representation of the key figures | 第20-23页 |
| ·The abnormal psychology showed in the bridge party | 第23-26页 |
| ·The Orientalist and the Other in A Passage to India | 第26-31页 |
| ·The Orientalist and the Other | 第26-28页 |
| ·The Orientalist's priggishness and snobbery | 第28-31页 |
| ·The complexity of the Orientalist and Other | 第31-36页 |
| ·Some humanists and the another kind of Other | 第31-34页 |
| ·The Other confused by multicultural identities | 第34-36页 |
| 3 From dialogue to conflict | 第36-48页 |
| ·The spoiled dialogues between the West and the East | 第36-41页 |
| ·A dialogue spoiled by inequality of political status | 第36-39页 |
| ·A cultural dialogue between intellectuals of different identities | 第39-41页 |
| ·The complex causes of conflict | 第41-45页 |
| ·The latent complication leading to the conflict | 第41-43页 |
| ·The latent peril leading to the conflict | 第43-45页 |
| ·Falling into the trap of empire | 第45-48页 |
| ·The direct intervention of the Empire power | 第45-46页 |
| ·The confused psychology of the people involved | 第46-48页 |
| 4 From conflict to rupture | 第48-60页 |
| ·The tragical result of the conflict | 第48-53页 |
| ·The complexity of Indian culture and society | 第53-59页 |
| ·The rupture between the East and the West | 第59-60页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第60-63页 |
| Notes | 第63-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-72页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第72页 |
