Phyllis Yu-ting Huang is Sessional Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

This book examines literary representations of mainlander identity articulated by Taiwan's second-generation mainlander writers, who share the common feature of emotional ambivalence between Taiwan and China.

Introduction: What's in a Name?: Second-generation Mainlander Writing as a Genre

1. Constructing the Mainlander: Self, Other, and Homeland in Chu Tien-hsin's Everlasting (¿¿) and Yuan Chiung-chiung's This Love, This Life (¿¿¿)

2. Seeking a New Identity: Su Wei-chen's Leaving Tongfang (¿¿¿¿) and Chu Tien-hsin's "In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound" (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿)

3. In Quest of the Absent Mainlander Father: Family, History, and Mainlander Identity in Hao Yu-hsiang's The Inn (¿¿) and Lo Yi-chin's The Moon Clan (¿¿¿¿)

4. Inventing a Taiwanized Juancun: Lai Sheng-chuan and Wang Wei-chung's The Village (¿¿¿¿)

5. Happily Ever After?: Homecoming and Mainlander Identity in Chiang Hsiao-yun's Peach Blossom Well (¿¿¿)

Conclusion and Epilogue: "Mainlander" as an Identity of In-betweenness