Amy received her bachelor's and master's degrees in English and linguistics from San José State University, and later did doctoral linguistics studies at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley.ous works
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Amy Tan is a Chinese American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. She was born in Oakland, California in 1952. She is the middle child in the family. In the late 1960s her sixteen-year-old brother Peter died of a brain tumor. Within a year of Peter's death, Amy's father died of the same disease.
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英国电影学院奖(BAFTA Film Award) 1995 最佳改编剧本 (提名) 罗纳德·巴斯 最佳改编剧本 (提名)覃恩美 青年艺术家奖(Young Artist Award) 1994 Best Actress Under Ten in a Motion Picture Melanie Chang Best Actress Under Ten in a Motion Picture (提名) Mai Vu 青年艺术家奖 1994 Best Youth Actress Co-Starring in a Motion Picture Drama (提名) Irene Ng 美国编剧工会(WGA Award (Screen)) 1994 Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published (提名) 覃恩美 Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published (提名) 罗纳 德·巴斯 USC Scripter Award 1994 USC Scripter Award (提名) 罗纳德·巴斯 USC Scripter Award (提名) 覃恩美 Casting Society of America, USA(Artios) 1994 Best Casting for Feature Film, Drama Heidi Levitt Best Casting for Feature Film, Drama Risa Bramon Garcia
The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a bestselling novel written by Amy Tan.
In 1987, after her mother returned to health, they traveled to China where Tan's mother was reunited with her daughters and Tan met her half-sisters. The trip provided Tom with a fresh perspective on her mother and it served as the key inspiration for her first book, The Joy Luck Club.
Main novels
The Joy Luck Club （1989） 喜福会
The Kitchen God‘s Wife（1991） 灶神之妻
The Hundred Secret Senses （1995） 百种神秘感觉
Saving Fish from Drowning （2005） 拯救溺水鱼
Obviously, the conflicts are caused by mothers ' and daughters' generation gaps and growing backgrounds. The mothers grew up in China where there are many traditions and rules to follow. However, the daughters grew up in San Francisco and live in an American way. In another way, it is also conflicts between the two cultures. In China, parents are the symbol of power. In America, however, everyone is equal and parents encourage sense of independence
After these family tragedies, her mother moved Amy and her younger brother to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school. During this period, Amy learned about her mother's former marriage to an abusive man in China.
Saving Fish From Drowning is a 2005 novel written by Amy Tan. It is Tan's sixth and most recent work.