The Joy Luck Club:
Collision and Compatibility Between Chinese
and American Culture
Abstract:Basic on the study of The Joy Luck Club, this thesis discusses the mother-daughter collision and compatibility between Chinese and American culture,which is caused by the two generations of Chinese American in the novel.The paper is entirely sepertated by four major parts: Introduction, Conflict between Chinese &American culture, Compatibility between Chinese &American culture,and Conclusion.It argues basically on the differen living environment,different heritage and different value etc.
Key words: The Joy Luck Club ,mother-daughter collision and compatibility
Outlines:
Chapter1 Introduction
1.1Brief introdution about The Joy Luck Club 1.2Introduction about about the thesis
Chapter2 Conflict between Chinese &American culture
2.1The culture of Chinese mahjong 2.2Different living environment,different value
Chapter3Compatibility between Chinese &American culture
Chapter4Conclusion
Chapter 5References
Chapter 1 Chapter1 Introduction
1.11.1Brief introdution about The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club' is a well-known American-Chinese writer Amy Tan's representative works.
In the novel,she presented to the reader four Chinese immigrant mothers and their daughters .Although living in America,the immigrant mothers cling to Chinese traditional culture.They organize the Joy Luck Club regularly,a weekly meeting of best Chinese friends. Four mothers with their own view of the world, their world view is based on their experiences of life in China. However,the girls from their mothers can not understand the Chinese culture because the are America-born. So there are conflicts that have been vividly described in this book.As time goes by,aftter a series of misunderstandings and conflicts, they begin to understand each other .The two generations go into harmony with their effors of love.. 1.2 Introduction about about the thesis
The thesis is the discussion about the mother-daughter collision and compatibility between Chinese and American culture,entirely sepertated by four major parts: Introduction, Conflict between Chinese &American culture, Compatibility between Chinese & American culture,and Conclusion.In addition,the paper argues the different living environment,different culture heritage as well as different value which are the main causes of mother-daughter conflict in the novel.More importantly, after a series of misunderstandings,the two generations are in harmony which means cultural compatibility between China and America.It brings hope that contradiction or oppositions in our lives between past and present,between generation and between culture can be possibly even well reconciled.
Chapter2 Conflict between Chinese &Amerian culture
2.1The culture of Chinese mahjong
In the novel,we can see that the four mother-immigrants hold The Joy Luck Club every
week.All their best friends and related people will attend.They cook Chinese food,wear Chinese traditional clothes.Especially,they prefer to playing mahjong.It undoubtedly provides a place for the others to get in retrospect.However,the girls look down upon such gathering.Chinese cusine and clothes are not their taste.They even distain the mahjong.In their eyes ,that is boring and stupid.
In my oppinion,I think that playing mahjong reflects the character of a person and the
cultuer of a nation.In the movie The Joy Luck Club,we can see four vivid characters on the mahjong table.Jingmei (the leading actor)plays mahjong with three eldly women,the expression and behaviour of Auntie Lindo,she is aggressive and mighty as we see after he movie telling the stories between she and her daughter.Analysing the character of Auntie Lindo,culture of the
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