蔡鸿,美国堪萨斯大学美国学博士。专业研究领域为美国的种族与族裔、移民及妇女研究。现为北京外国语大学教师。主要教授过的课程有国际关系、西方文明、英美社会与文化、英语学术阅读与写作等。曾在国外发表期刊文章The Dear Diane Letters and the Bintel Brief: The Experiences of Chinese and Jewish Immigrant Womenin Encountering America, 并先后参与梅仁毅教授主编的《美国》及《美国研究十一讲》的撰写工作。
目錄:
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter One A Historiographical Examination of Chinese
American Women 10
1.1 A Historical Exploration of Chinese American Immigration 11
1.2 The Historiography of Chinese American Womens History 31
Chapter Two A Mixed Racial Identity: the Double Consciousness
of Young Chinese Women during Their Assimilation to Contemporary America 42
Chapter Three Coding and Decoding the Dear Diane Letters:
Race, Gender, and Culture 59
3.1 A Critical Examination of Sojourning, Transnationalism,
and Assimilation Theory 59
3.1.1 A Sojourning Theory 59
3.1.2 A Transnational Theory 63
3.1.3 Assimilation Theory 64
3.2 An Examination of the Dear Diane Letters 68
Chapter Four The Chinese Dear Diane Letters: A Social and Cultural Exploration 94
4.1 The Construction of the Dear Diane BookAn Introduction 94
4.2 The Chinese Translation of the Dear Diane LettersA Social
and Transcultural Perspective 99
Chapter Five The Bintel Brief and the Dear Diane
Letters in Comparative Perspective 127
5.1 The Construction of the Bintel Brief Letters 130
5.2 A Comparative View of the Dear Diane Letters and the
Bintel Brief Letters 133
5.3 A Summing-up 153
Conclusion Afterthought to the Dear Diane Letters 156
Appendix 1 Letter Summaries of the English Dear Diane Book 166
Appendix 2 Letter Summaries of the Chinese Dear Diane Book 173
SOURCES 177