A novel is an art of time with an innate temporality.Living in the crack of two cultures,Chinese American novelists exhibit a sensitive sense of time in their novels and tend to arrange their novels in a special time sequence.Base on Bergson's psychological time theory,the paper analyzes the character of narrative time in Maxine Hong Kingston's Amazon.It points out that Kingston's complicated and confused sense of time in structuring the novel reflects her contemplation and realization of the sense of belongs and her attempt to construct sel...