英国著名的文化研究者斯图亚特·霍尔认为文化属性不是固定不变的,而是随时代、地域、环境的不同而变化,所以应用两种不同方式来思考文化属性,即文化双轴性。在华裔作家任碧莲的代表作《典型的美国佬》中,主人公拉尔夫一家人就呈现了文化属性的双轴性。小说中的主人公,代表了新的华人形象,不再以他者的身份出现,而是作为主体进入了美国主流文化。 Stuart Hall, a famous British cultural researcher, thinks that cultural attributes are not fixed, but change with the times, regions and environments. Therefore, two different ways of thinking about cultural attributes, namely cultural biaxial Sex. In the representative book “Typical American” by Chinese writer Ren Bailian, the protagonist Ralph’s family presents the dual nature of cultural attributes. The protagonist in the novel represents a new Chinese image, no longer appears as the other, but as a main body into the mainstream American culture.