The Joy Luck Club is written by Amy Tan，a famous Chinese American writer. In the novel, she presents the stories of four Chinese-immigrant women and their American-born daughters. Each of the four Chinese women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wants to share her experiences with her daughter, and they never cease to try to build a bridge over the cultural differences and conflicts between them and their daughters with their maternal love of various forms. At first the daughters don’t understand their mothers and the Chinese culture that their mothers represent, but as time elapses, the daughters begin to understand and appreciate their mothers' past and accept their mothers in the end. In fact, it is the maternal love the Joy Luck Club mothers extend to their daughters that finally makes their daughters understand them and the Chinese culture that they represent. In this sense, the maternal love not only symbolizes Chinese culture, but more importantly serves as a bridge over the mothers and daughters, and over Chinese culture and American culture.
Key Words
The Joy Luck Club; conflicts; understanding; culture; maternal love
Abstract.............................................................I
Key Words............................................................I
摘要.................................................................Ⅱ
关键词...............................................................Ⅱ
Introduction.........................................................1
I. Conflicts Between Mothers and Daughters in the Joy Luck Club......3
Ⅱ.Maternal Love in the Joy Luck Club................................5
III. Cultural Dialogue, Communication and Understanding..............8
Conclusion...........................................................10
Acknowledgements.....................................................11
Bibliography.........................................................12
