偶像剧作为当今重要的流行文化之一，从兴起至今短短二十余年，在东亚地区的年轻人当中具有深远影响力。近年来，偶像剧产量虽有增无减，其主流情节却始终以“灰姑娘”童话故事为原型，从而显露出一种“灰姑娘情结”。尽管剧情千篇一律，却依然备受欢迎。本文以东亚偶像剧为例，着重对比“灰姑娘”故事原型与偶像剧基本要素，并从观众心理需求和社会原因两个角度，分析“灰姑娘情结”受欢迎的根源。

Television idol dramas produced by in East Asia countries or distracts such as Japan, South Korea, Mainland China and Taiwan, becaome increasingly popular among young audience since 1990s. Conspicuously, these drams share some important elements: prevailing with a high popularity, an interesting phenomenon is seen from these dramas: they all share the Cinderella elements, characterized by an ordinary but kind-hearted heroine, a prince hero, a plot of competitive running after the prince hero, and a romance happy ending for Cinderellathe ordinary heroine. This model is named as the Cinderella Complex by Thean American psychoanalyst termed this kind narrative as the Cinderella Complex. This thesis aims at analyzing the narrative structure of East Asian TV idol dramas through the Cinderella Complex and its social origins.