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Acknowledgements
Chapter Ⅰ Introduction
1.1 A Review of Pearl S. Buck and The Good Earth
1.2 A Review of Amy Tan and The Joy Luck Club
1.3 Research Objective of This Thesis
Chapter Ⅱ Riddle of Outsider in Marginal Cultural Environment
2.1 Identification of Marginal Man in a Social Community
2.2 Pearl S. Buck--an Embarrassing Activist between China and America
2.3 Amy Tan's Confusion and Choice
Chapter Ⅲ Chinese Images and Chinese Traditions in Others' Eyes
3.1 lmagology and Chinese Images in History
3.1.1 Imagology
3.1.2 The Stereotype of Chinese Images
3.2 A Compromise between Self and Other--Chinese Image under Buck's Pen
3.2.1 Chinese Traditional Social Customs and Practices in The Good Earth
3.2.2 Earth-Continuity of Life for all Human Beings
3.2.3 Chinese Image--a Collected Imagination
3.3 A Confusing Self--Chinese Image Portrayed by Amy Tan
3.3.1 Chinese Culture in The Joy Luck Club
3.3.2 Chinese Image--Patchwork Made by Mothers' Memories
3.3.3 Talk Story--Self Narration in Group Vexed Description
Chapter Ⅳ Chinese Image Reinvention in Heterogeneous Cultural Communication Context
4.1 Contemporary Heterogeneous Cultural Context
4.2 Cultural Relativism and Cross-cultural Communication
4.3 Chinese Image Reinvention
Chapter V Conclusion
Works Cited
Published Paper during MA Study
