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1、The Joy Luck Club: Collision and Compatibility between Chinese and American CultureAbstract The Joy Luck Club is the first novel of Amy Tan, a famous Chinese-American writer. In the novel she mainly describes the relationship between the Joy Luck Club mothers and their daughters and cultural conflic
2、ts. The novel is set in the age of globalization and in the multicultural American society; it represents the process of misunderstanding, conflicts, understanding and blending between the mothers and the daughters. Globalization not only brings many chances to china but also brings cultural challen
3、ges to China. As the degree of globalization is getting deeper, Chinese culture faces the danger of being integrated and changed by other cultures. Through contextual analysis of the Joy Luck Club and the cultural conflicts and blending embodied in it, this paper demonstrates that in the age of glob
4、alization a balance should be kept among different cultures, and a right attitude towards cultural conflicts should be taken, and it suggests that the native culture should not be thrown away when learning from others, and instead, it should be transmitted to others.Key Words:The Joy Luck Club; conf
5、lict; understanding; cultural blending 内容摘要 喜福会是著名美国籍华裔女作家谭恩美的处女作,作者在小说中主要描述了四对移民母女的关系和她们之间由于文化的差异而引起的冲突,小说以全球化时代和美国多元文化社会为背景,呈现了4对母女由误会,冲突到理解的过程。在全球化环境下中国面临很多发展的机遇,但更多的是文化的挑战。随着全球化的加剧,中国文化面临一种被融化,被改变的危险。本文通过对喜福会文本及其所透视出的文化冲突与融合的分析,说明在全球化环境中,应该在不同文化中找到一个平衡点,并以正确的态度来对待文化冲突,同时不要轻易否定母文化,在向全世界学习其他优秀文化的时
6、候,也要向他们传播中国传统文化。关键词:喜福会;冲突;理解;文化融合ContentsAcknowledgements.iAbstract(English). iiAbstract(Chinese).iii1.Introduction.12.Amy Tan and Her Novel The Joy Luck Club.23.The Conflicts Between American and Chinese Cultures Embodied in the Novel.33.1the misunderstanding.33.2the different language.53.3The dif
7、ferent experiences.64.The Cultural Understanding and Blending.65.A correct attitude towards culture.86.Conclusion.10Works Cited. 121.IntroductionIn the novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan explores the relationship between mothers and daughters. In the novel there are 4 mother-daughter pairs, the mother
8、s are the first generation immigrants, and the daughters are new generation born in America. In the history of china, women has never gain the same respectful as man except in maternal society, especially during the war of liberation, china women live in a difficult society(Zhang 137). The four moth
9、ers in the story are among those women, they go to American to find a new lives which is quietly different with other women who are just enduring to the end. But they dont forget their Chinese traditional culture, while their daughters are born in America, they are the second generation immigrants,
10、and they dont understand their mothers so called Chinese culture and their way of thinking, so misunderstanding often makes them unhappy. In order to make their daughters know them and the Chinese culture, the Joy Luck Club mothers have made pain- taking efforts to remove their differences. They sei
11、ze every opportunity to tell their daughters their past experiences, demonstrate their courage to challenge the feudal society and never stop extending maternal love to their daughters. Thanks to their great efforts, their purpose is fulfilled. Therefore, cultural understanding and blending between
12、the mothers and daughters are achieved. In the context of globalization, China faces many chances to develop its economic power; meanwhile it faces more challenges than opportunity to its traditional culture. Although learning new technologies from other countries and absorbing the essence of other
13、cultures are necessary, Chinese culture should be protected. The communication with other countries and areas whose cultural backgrounds are totally different from Chinas is increasing rapidly. This paper, through the exploration of The Joy Luck Club, mainly discusses the cultural conflicts, underst
14、anding and integration between the mothers and the daughters, and metaphorically between Chinese culture and American culture. 2Amy Tan and her novel The Joy Luck ClubAmy Tan was born in Oakland, California. Both of her parents were Chinese immigrants. Her father, John Tan, was an electrical enginee
15、r and Baptist minister. In China, her mother who was forced to leave her three daughters from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai. Her marriage to John Tan produced three children, Amy was one of them. Amy Tans family is a typical immigrant family, her parents are the first generation immigrants,
16、 and she is the second-generation immigrant. She has experienced the same kind of incompatibility which she described in the novel. When she finished the high school in Switzerland, she and her mother were in frequent conflict. Tan further defied her mother by abandoning the pre-med course her mothe
17、r had urged her to pursue the study of English and linguistics. In the novel, Jing-mei abandoned studying piano her mother asked her to study, because she cannot stand her mothers arrangement for her. Amy Tan and the daughters in the novel have many things in common. They are the second-generation i
18、mmigrants. But the mothers, as the first generation immigrants, they dont totally integrate in the American culture. They cannot speak English with fluency. They never discard the tradition and never forget their lives in China. They show their love for their daughters by interfering in their activi
19、ties and planning the daughters future. To the mothers, they have the compulsory and responsibility to train their daughters to become perfect persons. They want to make their daughters combine the “American Context” with “Chinese Personality” perfectly. Their daughters, however, are often born and
20、grow up in America, and are deeply affected by the American moral standard and acting principles. They cherish their independent spirits and characters, and they are not willing to be interfered and controlled by others. Their narratives justify the puzzle, and the conflicts between two generations
21、they face, when they span the different cultures. They view their mothers as the fossils of the old society, because they fear and hate their mothers interference and negation on their activities. When their mothers tell their stories in China they express their detestation on it, when their mothers
22、 want to pass their Chinese cultural tradition to them, they are against it firmly. With the clash of different cultures, the two generations have difficulties in communicating and understanding each other. But the novel doesnt end with the conflicts; instead, in the process of growing up they under
23、stand their mothers love and the cultural reasons of the conflicts between themselves and their mothers in a deeper level. Therefore, at the end of the novel, the reconciliation between mothers and daughters forms naturally. Jing-mei takes her mothers place to travel back to China which proves the u
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