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The Joy Luck Club

In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang.
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Saving Fish from Drowning
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Amy Tan
谭恩美
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Amy Tan is a Chinese American writer whose works explore motherdaughter 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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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.
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The Joy Luck Club

It focuses on four ChineseAmerican immigrant families who start a club known as “the Joy Luck Club,” playing the Chinese game of Mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. There are twelve chapters divided into four sections, and each woman, both mothers and daughters, (with the exception of one mother, Suyuan Woo, who dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes （小插曲）. Company Logo
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•Finalist National Book Award •Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award •Finalist Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize •Bay Area Book Reviewers Award •Commonwealth Gold Award •American Library Association's Notable Books •American Library Association's Best Book for Young Adults •Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature Honorable Mention •Selected for the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read Company Logo
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Her famous works

The Joy Luck Club（1989） 喜福会
Main novels
The Kitchen God‘s Wife（1991） 灶神之妻
The Hundred Secret Senses（1995） 百种神秘感觉
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What does the author want to express?

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

The book opens with an article from the San Francisco Chronicle, stating that 11 tourists, including four men, five women, and two children have mysteriously vanished in Burma, after sailing away on a cruise on Christmas morning.
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New York Times Notable Book Booklist Editors Choice Finalist for the Orange Prize Nominated for the Orange Prize Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Audie Award: Best Non-fiction, Abridged Parents' Choice Award, Best Television Program for Children Shortlisted British Academy of Film and Television Arts award, best screenplay adaptation Shortlisted WGA Award, best screenplay adaptation
From then on, the story is told through the omniscient （无所不知的）first person narrative of Bibi Chen, the tour leader who unexpectedly dies before the trip takes place and who continues to watch over her friends as they journey towards their fate. The novel explores the relationships, insecurities and hidden strengths of the tourists, set against the uneasy political situation in Burma.
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Amy received her bachelor's and master's degrees in English and linguistics from San JoséState University, and later did doctoral linguistics studies at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley.

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Saving Fish from Drowning（2005） 拯救溺水鱼
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The Joy Luck Club

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.