本文目的是剖析嚴歌苓的小說《扶桑》。故事背景設於十九世紀至二十紀紀的三藩市華埠。表面上，《扶桑》鋪陳的只是一個中國妓女與異族少年的浪漫故事。但這樣一個易落俗套的愛情傳奇，衝擊的卻是我們對中西文化的固有看法。女主角扶桑，一個被視為操著賤業、社會地位卑下、流落異域的中國妓女，一直是那麼全心全意地演好自己的角色。她表演的和平寬容、自足自適，改寫一一貫以來所謂強勢、弱勢的傳統概念。

An in-depth analysis of the novel Fu Sang by Yuan Ge Ling is presented in this paper. The story took place in the San Francisco Chinatown during the 19th and the 20the centuries. On the surface, Fu Sang is a simple love story between a Chinese prostitute and an American teenage boy during the dark period of early Chinese immigration in North America. Yet, through her lyrical depiction of a cliché love story, Yan Ge ling is able to challenge our traditional views on the stark differences between Oriental and Western cultures. Fu sang, the main female character in the novel, was a Chinese prostitute, a despicable profession in an already repressed Chinese immigrant community. However, her low social status had not prevented her from fulfilling her role within the society. Her relationship with her American lover was not one of salvation but a reversed spiritual enlightenment of the strong by the weak.