自汤亭亭第一部自传体作品《女勇士》出版并引起强烈反响后,她相继创作了描述华裔男性在美国艰辛奋斗史的《中国佬》以及隐喻新时期华裔形象的《孙行者》。汤亭亭在这三部作品中着重塑造了一系列的华裔形象。一、美国拓荒者形象:沉默与反抗汤亭亭在《中国佬》中通过主人公一家三代在美国的经历重构了一部华裔男性在美国的奋斗血泪史。主人公的曾祖父是个普通的中国农民,因遭遇洪水而到美国碰碰运气。他 Since the publication of The Woman Warrior, the first autobiographical work by Maxine Hong Kingston, she has created “Chinese Men” describing the history of Chinese men’s hardships in the United States and “Sunwalkers” metaphors of the Chinese in the new era. In these three works, Maxine King focuses on a series of Chinese images. First, the image of the pioneer of the United States: silence and revolt Kingston in the “Chinese” through the protagonist a generation of three generations in the United States to reconstruct the history of a Chinese male in the United States struggle. The hero’s great-grandfather was an ordinary Chinese peasant who ran into trouble in the United States due to flooding. he