本文从后殖民主义视角解读华裔美国作家任碧莲的小说《典型的美国佬》,探讨小说中张家人文化身份的建构。通过分析张家人从初到美国的维护中国文化到全盘接受美国文化,再到杂糅文化身份的逐步形成,指出文化身份并不是一成不变的,而是在差异中不断建构而成的。 This essay, from the perspective of post-colonialism, interprets the “typical American guy” of Chinese-American writer Ren Bilian and discusses the cultural identity of Zhang’s family in the novel. By analyzing Zhang’s family from the beginning to the United States to maintain the Chinese culture to accept the American culture, then to the cultural identity gradually formed, pointed out that cultural identity is not static, but constantly constructed from the differences.