《中国佬》20世纪美国华裔女作家汤亭亭的代表作品。小说讲述了汤家男性在美国的创业史。本文运用福柯文本中的权力与话语、监视以及规训机制等理论对小说中华人在北美的经历及创业史进行批判,揭示出对于华人来说,美国社会是一个“全景式的大监狱”。 The representative work of “Chinaman” Tang Tingting, a Chinese American woman writer in the 20th century. The novel tells Tang Men’s history of entrepreneurship in the United States. This article uses the theory of power and discourse in Foucault’s texts, surveillance and disciplinary mechanisms to criticize the Chinese experience in North America and the history of entrepreneurship in the novel, revealing that for the Chinese, American society is a “panoramic jail ”.