此論文以趙承熙在維吉尼亞大學槍擊案追悼會中引發的生命認可爭議，來檢視亞美主體的情感面向。本文指出亞美社群與美國社會對趙承熙生命的無法辨識，和亞裔是模範少數族裔的公眾形象有密不可分的關係。本論文強調趙承熙生命的重要性在於他顯露了亞裔作為模範少數族裔主體必須壓抑的負面情感，同時，趙承熙也提供我們一個檢視亞美主體情感面向的例子。藉由亞裔社群對趙承熙羞恥感的表達，本文試圖以羞恥為研究方法，以釐清為何負面情感只能被亞裔主體所壓抑，而非轉化成擁抱自身主體的連結。

This thesis proposes that the commemorative narrative of the Virginia Tech shooting be an appropriate occasion for us to examine the affective relations between Asian Americans and Seung-Hui Cho. By highlighting the community’s difficulty in grieving Cho’s life, I argue that Asian Americans’ seeming detachment from Cho should be re-examined as an affective relation inherent in the racial formation of Asian American subjectivity. By raising the controversial issue as to whether Cho should be recognized as an un/grievable loss, I contend that Cho’s illegible racial identity mirrors an epistemological limitation in recognizing Asian Americans as affective subjects in the U.S. public. In this thesis, I point out that the difficulty for Asian Americans to embrace Cho’s pain is subject to the racial formation of Asian Americans as model minority subjects. In order to reposition Cho within the affective formation of Asian American subjectivity, I propose shame as the method to examine the affective relations between Asian Americans and Cho.

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