Chapter One Introduction: Definitions, Context,and Literature Review
1.1 Definitions
1.1.1 Asian American and Chinese American
1.1.2 Chinese American Identity, Chineseness, and Americanness
1.1.3 Chinese American Life Writing
1.2 Context: Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American
1.3 Literature Review
Chapter Two Theoretical Perspectives and Research Methodology
2.1 Theoretical Perspectives
2.1.1 Cross-cultural Psychological Model of Self-construal:Culture, Narrative, and Identity
2.1.2 Social Constructionist Perspective: Identity, Context, and Difference
2.1.3 Poststructuralist Perspective: Power Relations, Multiplicity,Fragmentation, and Hybridity of Identities
2.1.4 Negotiation of Identities
2.2 Research Methodology
Chapter Three Developing Bicultural Consciousness and Identity. The Dual Domination of Chineseness and Americanness
3.1 Pardee Lowe (1904-1998): Chineseness and Americanness-Development,Conflicts, and Negotiation
3.1.1 Chineseness: Preservation and Deviation
3.1.2 Americanness: Assimilation and Alienation
3.1.3 Chineseness and Americanness: The Two Conflicting Forces
3.1.4 Negotiation Between Chineseness and Americanness
3.2 Jade Snow Wong (1922-2006):The Development of a Comparative
Perspective and a Dual Identity
3.2.1 Chineseness: Acquisition and Representation
3.2.2 Chinese Americans: The Alienated Other in America
3.2.3 Development of a Comparative Perspective and a Dual Identity
3.3 Louise Leung Larson (1905-1988): Negotiation Between Chineseness and Americanness Outside Chinatown in the Early Twentieth-Century America
3.3.1 An Upper-class Chinese American Family's Life
3.3.2 Difficulties in Maintaining Chineseness
3.3.3 Racial Discrimination and the Dynamics of Identity
3.3.4 Being Chinese American, Becoming American
3.4 Conclusion: The Dual Domination of Chineseness and Americanness
Chapter Four Developing Chinese American Consciousness and Identity: The Rejection and Recognition of Ethnic and Cultural Identities
4.1 Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-):Imagination, Reality, and Identity Negotiation
4.1.1 The Authenticity Debates on The Woman Warrior
4.1.2 The Real and Imagined Chinese Culture
4.1.3 Woman Warrior and Kingson's Chinese American Self hood
4.1.4 From a"Jook Sing Girl" to a Chinese American Woman
4.2 Ben Fong-Torres (1945-) Negotiations of Ethnic and Cultural Identities in Post-WWII America
4.2.1 Growing up in the Late 1940s and 1950s
4.2.2 Venturing into the Mainstream America in the 1960s
4.2.3 Alienating from the Chinese Parents and the Chinatown Community
4.2.4 Dealing with the Identity Crisis
4.3 Evelina Chao (1949-): The Transnational Negotiation of Ethnic and Cultural Identities Between America and China
4.3.1 Chinese Americans' "Return" Visits to China
4.3.2 Chao's Identity Crisis as a Second-Generation Chinese American
4.3.3 Chao's StereotypicalPerceptions of China
4.3.4 Transnational Negotiation of the Identity Issue
4.4 Conclusion: The Rejection and Recognition of Ethnic and Cultural Identities
Chapter Five Going Beyond Chinese America: Negotiations of the Multiple, Shifting, and Hybrid Identities
5.1 May-lee Chai (1967-):A Mixed-Race Family's Life in America and the Reconfiguration of Ethnic Identity