对于习惯了林语堂(《唐人街》)、谭恩美(《喜福会》)式言说的华族奋斗史的读者而言,《百年金山》带来了不同的感受。一个中国家族在美国的百年奋斗史,加上一个由跨族群婚姻所带来的两个文明相互碰撞和融合历程,使它可以同时满足中西两个阅读视域的探究性需求。从1860年代到1990年代,从太平洋铁路大建设,排华法案,唐人街的隐忍求存,一战前后的再赴金山热潮, For readers accustomed to the history of the Chinese struggling with Lin Yutang (“Chinatown”) and Amy Tan (“The Joy Luck Club”), “Centennial Jinshan” brought different feelings. The history of the centenary struggle of a Chinese family in the United States and the collision and integration of two civilizations brought about by cross-ethnic marriages make it possible to satisfy both the inquiry needs of both Chinese and western reading fields at the same time. From the 1860s to the 1990s, from the Pacific Railway construction, the Exclusion Act, the forbearance of Chinatown, the Jinshan boom before and after World War I,