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论文题目：A CONTRAST OF THE SYMBOL OF AMERICAN AND CHINESE CULTURE IN THE JOY CLUB
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A contrast of the symbol of Americans and Chinese culture in the Joy Luck Club
Abstract

Amy Tan’s representative work, the Joy Luck Club has been well-received by western readers. Among which author’s superb writing skill is an important reason, especially the application of symbolism. The function of symbolism mainly reflects in the symbols of the title and the swan, etc. analyzing this symbolic implication of these symbols can reveals Chinese Americans’ special life https://www.51lunwen.org/HowlandAssignment/2011/0817/1502429529.html experience and mental characteristics, and also the difference between Chinese and American culture, and more deeply understand the subject connotation of this novel. Symbols add a profound implication for this novel, and make this novel more meaningful and thought-provoking. This paper just analyzes two symbols to contrast American and Chinese culture.
 
Contents
Abstract 1
Ⅰ Introduction 3
1.1 Introduction to the Joy Luck Club 3
1.2 Literature Review 3
Ⅱ Research Methodology 4
Ⅲ Contrast of Symbols between American and Chinese Culture 4
2.1 The Joy Luck Club 4
3.2 The Swan 5
Ⅳ Conclusions 6
Works-cited 7

 
Ⅰ Introduction
1.1 Introduction to the Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club is the first novel by Amy Ruth Tan published in 1989. This book won “American Book Award” and “Bay Area Fiction Critics Award in 1990”. The Joy Luck Club selects the conflicts between immigrant mothers and daughters born in America as the materials based on author’s own experience, expresses the psychological changes of mutual conflicts and mutual concord between two kinds of culture. The Joy Luck Club sets off a renaissance in Chinese American Literature in America. And Chinese American Literature https://www.51lunwen.org/englishpaper/ has caused concerns in American literary world.
The Joy Club is a loosely connected series of stories about Chinese-American mothers and daughters. It includes anecdotes and stories from three generations of woman, spanning a period of sixty to eighty years, and ending in the 1980s. It is about a complex story of four Chinese women who come to America in order to escape their tragic lives in China, and later who have gave birth to, and raise four American daughters.

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