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4、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

5、 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 dont understand their mothers and the chinese culture that their mothers represent, but as time elap

6、ses, 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 s

7、ense, 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 wordsthe joy luck club; conflicts; understanding; culture; maternal love摘要喜福會(huì)是美國著名的華裔女作家譚恩美的代表作品。在小說中,她呈現(xiàn)給讀者的是四位中國移民母

8、親與她們女兒之間的故事。這四位母親都有著自己的世界觀，她們的世界觀又是立足于她們的中國生活經(jīng)歷。她們想把自己的經(jīng)歷一一講述給女兒,并努力通過母愛的表達(dá)在她們與女兒的文化差異和沖突之間建立起溝通的橋梁。起初女兒們不能理解她們的母親及其代表的中國文化,但隨著時(shí)間的流逝,女兒們開始理解她們的母親,同情她們母親的悲慘過去并最終接受了她們的母親。事實(shí)上，正是喜福會(huì)中母親給予女兒們無微不至的母愛才最終使得女兒們理解了她們的母親及其代表的中國文化。因而, 喜福會(huì)中的母愛不僅是中國文化的象征,更重要的是母女理解與溝通的橋梁，也是中美文化交流的橋梁。關(guān)鍵詞喜福會(huì)；沖突；理解；文化；母愛introductiona

9、my tans the joy luck club is a masterpiece in chinese-american literature. the joy luck club mothers and their daughters have been the focus of research ever since the publication of this book. some researchers put the emphasis on the relationship between the mothers and daughters while some others

10、believe that it is the writing style that makes amy tans the joy luck club a success. for there are conflicts that have been vividly described in this book, some researchers make the conflicts in the joy luck club the theme of their thesis. however, in this thesis, maternal love will be the theme, a

11、nd it will be interpreted from a cultural point of view.through the stories of the joy luck club, the secret-laden lives of four chinese immigrant mothers and their american-born daughters are shown in front of the readers. the daughters reject their mothers seemingly constant criticism of everythin

12、g they choose, from husbands to hairdos. they view their mothers warnings as irrelevant, and their advice as intrusive. the daughters do not know what has inspired their warnings and advice: the hardships their mothers suffered in china before coming to the united states. thus, as the mothers see it

13、, their daughters are flailing in their modern american circumstances, unable to use what is “in their bones,” the familys inheritance of pain that led to their determined strength for survival, which their mothers try to bequeath them. the mothers, meanwhile, watch with heartache as their daughters

14、 marriages fail, as they expect less and less and so accept less and less. conflicts have become something that prevents the understanding and communication between mothers and daughters. in fact, all the conflicts are caused by cultural differences. the joy luck club mothers have accepted and been

15、deeply influenced by chinese culture, while their daughters are born and grow up in the united states and know little about chinese culture. what they have accepted is the american mainstream culture which is somehow contradictory with chinese culture.however, due to the maternal love of the joy luc

16、k club mothers, the mothers and daughters finally understand each other. the maternal love in the joy luck club helps the daughters understand their mothers; furthermore, its significance lies in that it serves as a bridge of cultural understanding between chinese culture and american culture.i. con

17、flicts between mothers and daughtersin the joy luck clubconflict is the main plot in the joy luck club. because the two generations are born and grow up in different cultural environments, the joy luck club mothers and their daughters have many conflicts. the mothers are deeply influenced by the tra

18、ditional chinese culture, while their daughters are born and get educated in the united states, whose culture is a completely different one. thus the joy luck club mothers and daughter can never understand each other. the daughters at first have a strong prejudice against their mothers and the chine

19、se culture. born in the united states and brought up in american mainstream culture, they inevitably hold a prejudice against their mothers and the chinese culture. they believe that american culture is superior to chinese culture. in their eyes, their mothers symbolize backwardness and ignorance. t

20、hey are dissatisfied with their mothers who use toothpick in public. they are ashamed of their mothers who open jars to smell the insides in grocery stores and they are angry with their mothers who like to use them to show off. naturally the four daughters try to identify themselves with american ma

21、instream culture. both rose and lena marry americans or what their mothers call waiguoren. they admire the americans and their culture so much that they are willing to make sacrifice for their american husbands. waverly thinks that her mothers chinese outlook would make her lose face when she attend

22、s her wedding, so she conspires with her beauty parlor to dress up her mother in an american style. the joy luck club mothers intervene so much in their daughters life that the daughters feel their mothers love is not embracing but suffocating. waverly, a chess prodigy thinks she has grown cleverer

23、than her mother who gives her “invisible strength.” lena fears being drawn into her mothers madness and consoles herself by imagining others who have a life worse than hers. rose, whose mother cannot let go of the memory of her son who drowned, now believes that by hoping for less, one isnt vulnerab

24、le to loss. and june believes it is her mothers impossibly high expectations that make her feel that even today, she is a failure.on the other hand, for the joy luck club mothers, they also cannot understand some behaviors of their american-born daughters. their behaviors are so different from their

25、 mothers culture that their mothers even feel distain about the american culture. ying-ying cant bear the go-dutch rule between lena and her husband. under the rule, the couple only pays for their common life expenditures that both of them have to use in their daily life. if they want to buy some pe

26、rsonal commodities, they must pay for themselves. this is no surprise in the western countries, especially in the u.s. but according to the chinese culture in which their mothers were born and grew up, its unacceptable. a married chinese couple cannot calculate the family financial expenditure so cl

27、early; they must share the burden together. when (jing-mei) woo quarrels with her mother suyuan, suyuan says in chinese, “only two kinds of daughters, those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! only one kind of daughter can live in this house. obedient daughter! ” (tan 124). because

28、 in chinese culture, children must obey their parents without any excuse. so when june makes her mother angry, suyuan bursts out these chinese characters. due to the cultural differences, the joy luck club mothers and daughters have many barriers in communication and understanding, and these barrier

29、s cannot be elated in a short period. for quite a long time, the joy luck club mothers, who live in the united states as minority groups, are overwhelmed by american mainstream society, but they make great efforts to make their daughters understand them and the chinese culture. they chat with their

30、daughters about their past experiences and impart maternal love to their daughters, patiently waiting for the moment when their daughters can understand and respect them and the chinese culture. finally thanks to their maternal love they imparted to their daughters and the same blood that flows in t

31、heir bodies, the joy luck club mothers are able to make their daughters know and understand them and the chinese culture.ii. maternal love in the joy luck clubevery mother loves her child or children. although the joy luck club mothers are very strict with their daughters, they still love their daug

32、hters. and the maternal love the four mothers impart to their daughters is just a typical chinese one. the maternal love of chinese mothers is not as direct as that of american mothers. chinese mothers do not kiss and hug their daughters and say “i love you” to them like their american counterparts.

33、 (yu longyu 173).the joy luck club mothers all love their daughters in a chinese way. first, just as the woman in the preface of the feathers from a thousand li away cooes to her swan, in america i will have a daughter just like me. but over there nobody will measured bythe loudness of her husbands

34、belch. over there nobody will look down on her, because i will make her speak only perfect american english. and over there she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow! she will know my meaning, because i will give her thisswana creature that became more than what was hoped for. (tan 3 )., the

35、 joy luck club mothers put high expectations upon their daughters. they hope their daughters will become successful. they begin to plan for their daughters future since they are children. they dont care whether their daughters like the plan or not, because in traditional chinese culture, sons and da

36、ughters must obey their parents, and they cannot rebel against the parents. if they do this, it is filial impiety, and they will be criticized by the family members and the neighbors and the society. although the joy luck club mothers have immigrated to the u.s, a brand-new country, their concept of

37、 the chinese culture cannot be left behind in china. both suyuan and lindo put great hope to their adolescent daughters. suyuan hopes that one day her daughter will become famous like shirley temple. in order to turn her dream into reality, she lets jingmei do lots of intelligence test that she has

38、colleted from some magazines. she even trades housecleaning service for weekly piano lessons for her daughter jingmei. lindo wants her daughter waverly to win as many champions as possible in chess games. when waverly is practicing the chess game skills, she always stands behind waverly, although sh

39、e doesnt know too much about chess. she arranges timetables for her daughter and she even asks waverlys brothers to clean the dish after supper, which is what waverly has to do before she becomes a famous chess player in her district. 【 second, the joy luck club mothers criticize their daughters muc

40、h more instead of praising them more like the american mothers. in their eyes, if they want their children to have power and skills so that they can survive in the fiercely competitive society, they have to be strict with their offspring. for the joy luck club mothers, in order to make sure that the

41、ir daughters are powerful enough in the future, they are very strict with their daughters and criticize them much instead of praising them. when ying-ying thinks that lena can go to school by herself, she urges again and again: “you must not walk in any direction but to school and back home” (tan 87

42、). but too much criticism makes the daughters feel dissatisfied and even angry with their mothers. they cannot accept this kind of love because they are strongly influenced by american individualism. they cannot bear their mothers arbitrariness and criticism no longer. some of them openly say “no” t

43、o their mothers. jingmei, for example, voices her strong protest: “i wont let her change me, i promised myself. i wont be what im not” (tan 117). she even takes radical actions against her mother. in order to disappoint her mother intentionally, she discontinues her college life. and for waverly, wh

44、en her mother shows her off in the stores again and again, she cant help shouting out her anger at her mother: “why do you have to use me to show off? if you want to show off, why dont you learn to play chess?” (tan 81). the daughters can never understand their mothers on this aspect. third, they ca

45、re too much for their daughterslife. the chinese parents hope that their offspring will have a happy life. even if their child or children get married, they will still pay much attention to their marital life, and want to make sure that their offspring have a happy life. for the joy luck club mother

46、s, their care and love can be reflected in the assistance they provide their daughters to solve their marriage problems. they never hesitate to help their daughters when their daughters have marriage problems. they try their best to pull their daughters out of troubles. both rose and lena marry amer

47、icans. in front of their american husbands, they have a sense of inferiority. rose does not make any decision on anything. instead, she lets her husband decide because she believes her husbands decision is always better. gradually, she begins to lose charms to her husband who believes that she is sh

48、ouldering off responsibility. he even proposes a divorce. crisis also exists in lenas marriage. they fight to solve the problems, but they are too weak to work out a solution. at this critical moment, their mothers do not walk away from them but try their best to help their daughters. an-mei encoura

49、ges rose to speak up, “why do you not speak up for yourself? why can you not talk to your husband?” (tan 176). when rose takes her mothers advice and does speak up for herself, she not only astounds her arrogant husband, but also saves her marriage. ying-ying shows her daughter what disastrous conse

50、quences would happen if she continues to ignore the imbalance between her and her husband. in this way, she reminds her daughter to take immediate actions to get rid of the imbalance in her marriage. from the assistance that their mothers provide them, the two daughters feel the deep love as well as

51、 the powerful strength of their chinese mothers, although sometime they may feel annoyed. rose finally realizes that her mother is more enthusiastic and helpful than an american psychiatrist in pulling her out of psychological troubles. the american psychiatrist only makes her feel “hulihutu”. as fo

52、r lena, she finds out that her mother loves her better even than her american husband because her mother still clearly remembers that she never eats ice-cream while her husband knows nothing about it even though he has been married to her for many years. from this aspect, the joy luck club mothers g

53、ive their daughters a lot of help and comfort. in fact, the maternal love of the joy luck club mothers exists almost everywhere. the four daughters come to realize that their mothers are always loving them in every possible situation. they find out that their mothers would express maternal love at a

54、ny moment. at the crab dinner, suyuan would not let her daughter jingmei pick the crab with a broken leg after every guest has taken away the good ones. in suyuan eyes, a crab with a broken leg is a symbol of bad luck. she does not want her daughter to suffer from bad luck. in order to protect jingm

55、ei from bad luck, when there are only two crabs in the plate, suyuan picks the one with a broken leg for herself, and gives her daughter the better one. again, the maternal love of a chinese mother is vividly shown here. the mothers would always protect their daughters and make any sacrifice for the

56、m at any moment. in all, the maternal love that the joy luck club mothers show to their daughters is brim with chinese culture. in the beginning, because their daughters dont know anything about their mothers motherland culture, they cannot understand their mothers, but after hearing their mothers e

57、xperiences in china, and sensing their mothers sincere love, they begin to understand and accept their mothers. although they have been soaked in the american culture, the same blood of the chinese people in their bodies and their mothers love reminds them that they cannot deny their mothers culture

58、.iii. cultural dialogue, communication and understandingbecause of the constant maternal love of the joy luck club mothers, the daughters begin to understand and appreciate their mothers and the chinese culture that their mothers represent. they begin to have cultural dialogue and communication with

59、 their mothers. although they dont have any special dialogue or discussion about the chinese culture, the joy luck club mothers try to grasp every chance to tell their daughters the knowledge about china. when waverly and her mother have a dialogue about genghis khan, taiyuan is mentioned. waverly misunderstands it as taiwan, her mother corrects her instantly, “i was born in china, in taiyuan. taiwan is a province of china.” (tan 167).