当代华裔美国作家汤亭亭在小说《孙行者》中继承了欧洲狂欢化文学传统，创造性地运用狂欢化艺术形式和手法，将之融入其美国经验和族裔经验中，从而实现了创作视野和艺术表现形式的重大突破，展示了华裔文学不仅是华裔经验的书写，同时也具有世界文学的普遍艺术追求和人文关怀。汤亭亭这一艺术实践为人们探索华美文学如何兼具特殊性和普遍性，反思华美文学批评话语“重意识形态，轻文学审美”之片面性，正确评价华裔美国文学的文学地位提供了启示。

In Tripmaster Money: His Fake Book，Maxine Hong Kingston inherits the European literary tradition of carnivalism．As a result，She displays her creative use of literary techniques of carnivalization by integrating her understanding of carnival spirit with the American ethnic experience，thus achieves a major breakthrough in both literary perspectives and artistic forms，showing that Chinese-American literature is not limited to the writing of Chinese-American experience，but is also rich in humanity spirit and has its own aesthetic pursuit．Kingston’s artistic exploration sheds new light on discussions on Chinese-American literature’s particularity and universality，and on queries of an ideology-orientation in Chinese -American literary criticism．