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本科毕业论文
The Cultural Conflicts and Blending in The Joy Luck Club
二〇一一年五月
Outline
Thesis: Amy Tan explores the culture differences and conflicts by writing The Joy Luck Club
Ⅰ. The importance of munication between two different cultures
Ⅱ. Amy Tan and Her Novel The Joy Luck Club
Background of her novel The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan the writer herself
Ⅲ. The Conflicts between American and Chinese Cultures Embodied in the Novel
Various values toward life
Culture shock involved in daily life
Ⅳ. The Cultural Understanding and Blending
Communication between two generations
Understanding with each other
V. Correct Attitude towards Culture
VI .Chinese culture’s challenges in the age of globalization..
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.
The Cultural Conflicts and Blending in The Joy Luck Club
In the novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan explores the relationship between mothers and daughters. There are 4 mother-daughter pairs in the