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Based on an intensive reading of the original classics and literary texts of Asian American criticism, on the one hand, this book conducts a diachronic examination of the process of Asian American literary criticism, grasping the fundamental critical paradigms and theoretical keywords for in-depth analysis and research; on the other hand, it conducts a horizontal comparative study of these critical paradigms and theoretical keywords and closely related contemporary Western literature, cultural trends and theories to reveal its complexity. This book extracts the paradigms, core discourses and theoretical keywords of Asian American literary criticism that have not been touched upon by critics and have not been studied in depth. It systematically explains the historical, social and cultural context of its emergence and its development trajectory, analyzes its historical contribution and limitations to Asian American literary criticism, and its positive and negative effects on the construction of Asian ethnic subjectivity and ethnic development.