在连续七代人的时间里,美国白人主流社会通过各种方式,尤其是通俗文化,把华裔男性再现为阴阳怪气、缺乏男性气概的弱势族裔。透过电影镜头的再现,华裔的刻板形象得到不断地加深和强化。美国华裔一直生活在自我否定、自我蔑视和人格缺残之中。这种文化间际性的生存现实,使赵健秀醒悟到美国华裔文化身份书写的紧迫性, For seven generations in a row, the mainstream white American society reappears as a strange and mysterious Chinese masculinity and lacks a masculine and vulnerable ethnic minority through various means, especially popular culture. Through the reappearance of the movie footage, the stereotypes of Chinese have been continuously deepened and strengthened. Chinese Americans have been living in self-denial, self-esteem and lack of personality. This intercultural reality of reality has made Zhao Jianxiu wake up to the urgency of writing Chinese-American cultural identity.