Preface Introduction Chapter 1 The Iron Curtain of Language: Place and Placement The Iron Curtain of Language Place and Placement The Glass Ceiling of Gender and Genre Chapter 2 The Postmodern Chaotic Arabesque and the Oriental Wife's Tale: A Replacement and Re-Orientation The Exotic Is Familiar: Arabian Nights and American Chimera The East Is in the West: From Diotima to Flower Orchid The Economics of Exploitation in Literary Exchanges The Woman Warrior as a Postmodern Chaotic Arabesque Chapter 3 Translating a Heroic Tradition of Chinese Women:The Woman Warrior The Missionary Tradition and the Heroic Tradition The River-Merchant's Wife and the Master Narrative of American Orientalism The Myth of No Name Woman and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Transnational Influence and Revolutionary Theater Golden Mountain Women and the Might of a Mother Tongue The Legacy of "the Eastern Palace" in the Disneyland of Western Movies Daughters of Immortal Fame on the Borderland of Barbarian Battlefields The Redemption of a Woman Writer in Chinese History, Poetry,and Play Chapter 4 Deconstructing the Master Narrative of the Yellow Peril: China Men Literary Fathers Chinese and American: "On Discovery" of Flowers in the Mirror The Coolie Fiction and the Yellow Peril: Media and Missionary Power Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: From the Sandalwood to the Sierra Nevada Mountains Literacy, Laws, and the Legacy of Language: "The Father from China" and "The Wild Man of the Green Swamp" Wars and Wisdom of Survivors: "The American Father" and "The Brother in Vietnam" Translation and the Mortality of the Teacher's Tongue: "The Adventures of Lo Bun Sun" Chapter 5 Re-Orienting American Orientalism through the Black Curtain in a Puppet Show:Tripmaster Monkey "Hippies, Indians, Chinese, Quakers, Women Martin Luther King Jr. and Vegetarians" "She was no China Man the way he was China Man" Wittman Ah Sing/Whitman I Sing/Wit Man Ah Sing/Noman Asing/ No Man I Sing "The Present-day U. S.A. Incarnation of the King of the Monkeys. "Chineseness does not come to an actor through genetic memory. " "It's the business of a playwright to bring thoughts into reality. " "My love story is the talk of Chinatown. " "What have you done to educate the world lately?" Postscript: "Five Books of Peace" Appendix: What Is Common in Chinese World Literature?—— Speech on International Women's Day at Fudan University Bibliography Acknowledgement About the Author
