“身份不明的苦恼”是於梨华的小说《会场现形记》中五叔揶揄某人的说法。“我”是新到美国的留学生,在宾州大学教书的五叔带我到会场开眼界,五叔向我介绍某人:“……听说他犯了一种‘身份不明’的苦恼;在中国人面前他以美国人自居,在美国人面又不得不做中国人,换来换去,有时连自己都糊涂了,就会闹病……”这种说法,表面看来是讽刺了某人的世故圆滑,而从深层次来分析,则不难看出这种“身份不明的烦恼”的真正由来——游离于东西方文化的夹 “Undesirable distress ” is a poet in Uncle Wah’s novel “Meeting Stories” in the Fifth Uncle. “I ” is a new student to the United States, Uncle Tertiary teaching at the University of Pennsylvania took me to the scene eye-opener, Wu Shu introduced me to someone: “... ... I heard he committed a kind of ’unknown’ Distressed; in front of the Chinese he himself to the Americans, Americans have to do in the face of the Chinese people, in exchange for, and sometimes even their own confused, it will be sick ... ... ”On the face of it Is ironic to the worldly sophistication of a person, and from a deeper level of analysis, it is not hard to see the real origin of this “unidentified troubles ” - free from the folder of Eastern and Western cultures