Abstract: Chinese American woman writer Jade Snow Wong’s FIFTH CHINESE DAUGHTER has arous ed enough controversy. From the analyses in such aspects as the intervention and "rewriting" by white power, selective "usage" and "canonization" by the m ainstream culture, and "negotiation" between Orientalism and feminism, readers can come to the conclusion that Jade Snow Wong’s attitude towards Chinese and western culture cannot be simplified as "whitened" or "Orientalized," becaus e there are functions of many elements such as culture, power, hegemony and ideo logy behind the text.