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

摘要： 家族故事是美国华裔女性小说的主要内容，研究者们分别从“身份”问题、性与性别问题、自传书写和记忆研究等角度展开论述，并取得了不俗的成绩。但是，现有研究多聚焦华裔的族裔意识与性别权利诉求，阐释的角度略显单一。倘若以生命书写为轴，研究者或可在历史、记忆与空间的三维辩证关系中审视华裔女性小说以跨国生存经验谋求华裔在地的深意，继而探讨华裔女性小说家族叙事研究的新视角。

关键词: 华裔女性小说, 家族故事, 生命书写