Pronoun, as a crucial cohesive device to maintain coherence of a discourse for efficient and effective communication of messages, induces a prosperous research direction that interests a wide range of research disciplines to discover the myth of this function category in human language processing faculty and its dynamicity in the reference-tracking process. Accessibility-related theories (AT) state that if a referent is more accessible in a mental representation constructed in mind from linguistic input, the referent will be likely to be continued and be coded with a more reduced form of anaphora. The strength of accessibility partially depends on a grammatical hierarchy which implies a subject/object asymmetry. And the computationally-driven Centering Theory (CT) agrees to this ideology and concerns the transition status between utterances in a discourse (e.g., continue/shift transition status). This study is to examine the universality of such a grammatical hierarchy in canonical SVO construction in Mandarin Chinese from experimental work and to revisit the subject/object asymmetry in the context of Centering Theory’s continue/shift coherence transition status. Results from a computerized self-paced reading experiment were used to show the existence of the asymmetry in Chinese1. And stimulus analyses of experimental materials of previous studies with the Centering Theory were also conducted to illustrate the relations between AT and CT. The result shows that the subject/object asymmetry of the grammatical hierarchy which is an overwhelming theoretical belief in linguistics and psycholinguistics is reaffirmed in Chinese canonical SVO structure. The result and the stimulus analysis suggest that the subject/object asymmetry in AT and the continue/shift transitions in CT share the same ideology from different senses and can be closely bridged.