A narrative study was conducted to investigate how seven female Chinese international students negotiate their identities. Data were collected mainly via taped individual interviews. This study found that most of the participants experienced what they perceived to be constraints on their identities imposed by the American ideology of cultural homogeneity. Although the participants strive to negotiate their identities, because they depend mainly on internal and unobtrusive processes to construct their subjects of identities, their identity negotiation is often overlooked, leading to the assumption that such students are objects of their identities. Therefore, this study took a unique viewpoint that describes the identity negotiation from their perspectives. (Contains 1 footnote.)