Abstract：Chinese American writers express their living experiences and mental states by using various Chinese elements in English. Their creation can be regarded as a cross-cultural writing. This can also be identified as a practice of “culture translation”. These writers accordingly take the role of cultural translators. But they do not have the actual memory of China, except a few of them who made a short trip to their home country. Their understanding and conception of China are undoubtedly covered with a layer of mystery. But why do they willfully want to be the translators and interpreters of their cultural home country? These lie behind their hybrid literary creation such as the striving for discourse power, the attempts to deconstruct the colonialism, the shaping of hybrid identity may account for their writing significations.

Keyword：hybrid texts of Chinese American literature;culture translation;discourse power;hybrid identity;