汤亭亭处女作《女勇士》面世之后引起社会轰动效应,好评如潮,但大多视为非小说夸奖,汤亭亭声明她的小说不是写自家身世的非小说,而是具有普遍意义的美国小说,她强调她是美国人,美国作家。由此可见她强烈的美国身份认同。身份认同伴随着民族想象。安德森在《想象的共同体》中说:遵循着人类学的精神,我主张对民族作如下的界定:它 In the wake of the release of the “Warrior Warrior” by Hong Kong’s top singer, Tang Tingting made the most of the sensationalism in the world. However, most of them were regarded as non-fictional compliments. Maxine Ting stated that her novel is not a non-fiction written in her own life but a universal American novel. Stressed that she is American, American writer. This shows her strong American identity. Identity is accompanied by national imagination. In An Imagined Community, Andersen said: Following the spirit of anthropology, I advocate defining the nation as follows: it