关键词: 华裔女性小说, 家族故事, 生命书写

Abstract: Recently, indepth analysis and thorough research have been made on the Chinese Americans family stories, the major theme of ChineseAmerican womens fictions, which mainly focus on the issues of ethnicity and womens right from the following four perspectives: cultural identity, gender issue, autobiographic writing, and ethnic memory. However, from the perspective of life writing, the researchers may reexamine the ChineseAmerican womens fictions with an understanding of the individual living experience of Chinese Americans in a crossnational context, together with the theory of placemaking. Differences lie in reflections on the sense of history and local place in the dialectic relation between the ChineseAmerican history, memory and their living space, which is probably the expansion direction for the present study of family narrative in ChineseAmerican womens writing.

Key words: American Chinese womens writing, family story, life writing