Introduction 1
Chapter One The Cultural Politics of the Generation Gap 27
"Good Medicine Tastes Bitter":Cultural Identity(Re)formation in Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea 30
"Like Father,Like Son"?:Intergenerational Conflict in Pardee Lowe's Father and Glorious Descendant 42
"The beginning is hers,the ending,mine":Mother-Daughter Talking Stories in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior 53
"Your mother is in your blood":The Mother-Daughter Bond in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club 66
Chapter Two The Politics and Art of"Claiming America" 82
The Making of an American:A New Historicist Interpretation of Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men 85
From Cultural Nationalism to Americanism:Frank Chin's Donald Duk in Perspective 98
Rebel with a Cause:Jade Snow Wong's American Dream in her Fifth Chinese Daughter 111
Shawn Wong's Quest for a"Lonely"Heritage in his Homebase 124
Chapter Three Americanization and its Discontents 138
“America was no America”：Cultural Disillusionment in Gish Jen's Typical American 140
“Paper is more precious than blood”：Alienation and Abjection in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone 155
“Spare the Rod，Spoil the Child”？：Americanization as Violence in Gus Lee's China Boy 168
Nature versus Nurture：An Anatomy of Americanization in Eric Liu's The Accidental Asian 180
Conclusion 194
Bibliography 206