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Key Words....................................................................I
摘要.........................................................................1
关键词.......................................................................1
Introduction.................................................................1
I. Amy Tan and Her Novel The Joy Luck Club...................................2
Ⅱ.The Conflicts Between American and Chinese Cultures Embodied in the Novel.3
Ⅲ. The Cultural Understanding and Blending .................................6
Ⅳ. A Correct Attitude Towards Culture.......................................7
Conclusion...................................................................10
Acknowledgements.............................................................11
Bibliography.................................................................12
Abstract
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 conflicts. 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 challenges 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 globalization 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; conflict; understanding; cultural blending