This is an ethnographic project conducted in the Chinese American community in Houston. The author lived in the community for six months to interview, observe and participate in their daily lives. The main theoretical frameworks used in this study are Ogbus (1989) cultural ecology and the Diaspora theory (Clifford, 1997). The data points out that both these two theories have strengths and weakness in explaining Chinese Americans cultural identity formation but cannot fully cover the varieties existing between the immigrant Chinese and American- born Chinese. Conclusively, the...