本书共分三章，另有一个绪论和结语，借用索罗斯曾经提出的"血统世系"与"文化认同"这两个概念，对所选定的12部华裔美国英文小说(包括传记)中的族裔经验与文化认同进行系统考察，旨在揭示其对作品人物的美国化过程的促进或抑制作用，探讨文学人物乃至作家本人的"美国化"运行轨迹。(This book is composed of three chapters with an additional introduction and a peroration. Based on the two concepts of "Ancestry" and "cultural identity" that are put forward by Soros, the writer investigates the ethnic groups experience and cultural identity in the selected twelve Chinese-American English novels systemically to reveal the function of promotion and restrict of those on the process of Americanization of the characters and discuss the movement trajectory of Americanization of the literary characters and the writers' themselves.)