Introduction 1
Broken Blossoms 1
General Description 8
Theoretical Underpinning 10
Literature Review 18
Main Body 21
Chapter 1 Dream and Fantasy:The Remote China in Imagination 24
The Arrival of L'Orphelin de la Chine 25
Kim-Ka!in the Fairyland 32
Chapter 2 Marginalization and Distortion:The Unwelcome Other at the Door-Step 41
Early Chinese Immigrants in the Gaze of Americans 43
Ah Sin by Twain and Harte 54
Why The Chinese Must Go? 68
Chinatown Literature and The Queen of Chinatown 82
The Chinese Fought Back with a"Roar" 90
Chapter 3 Re-examination and Experimental Adoption:Selective Borrowing in New Horizon 110
The First Born with a New Image 112
K'ung Fu Tze Leads to Another Look Eastward 121
Who Wears The Yellow Jacket? 128
Learning of Western Ideas in Romance on "the Springtime of Overseas Chinese" 137
Chapter 4 Diversity and Collision:The Grope for Understanding During WWII 145
Fu Manchu VS.Charlie Chan 149
Sprout of Hope on The Good Earth 163
Friendship during Warfare in Mi Zhi Na 173
Conclusions 184
Works Cited 190