1、作 者 声 明我郑重声明：本人恪守学术道德，崇尚严谨学风。所呈交的学位论文，是本人在导师的指导下，独立进行研究工作所取得的结果。除文中明确注明和引用的内容外，本论文不包含任何他人已经发表或撰写过的内容。论文为本人亲自撰写，并对所写内容负责。论文作者签名：2011 年 5 月 31 日题 目 Conflict and Blending between AmericanDaughters and Their Chinese Mothers2011 年 3 月 7 日 至 2011 年 5 月 31 日 共 13 周院 系 外国语学院英语系专业班级 英 073学 号 10071510姓 名 王晓楠院
2、 长 系 主 任 教 学 科 研 组 主 任教研组(研究室) 主任 指 导 教 师 2011 年 5 月 31 日课题来源 自 选课题的目的、意义 本论文基于美国和中国地理、文化等差异对子女教育的深刻影响，探讨了谭恩美的小说喜福会中的文化冲突，分析在文化差异的影响下如何平衡两种文化、两代人之间的矛盾。如今，全球化不断加速，最新调查显示亚裔已经成为美国最大移民组成部分，中美不同的教育方式孰优孰劣成为议论的焦点。谭恩美在喜福会中已经发表了自己对中美文化冲突的一些独特见解，今天再来梳理、解读她的观点，具有一定的实际价值和现实意义。要 求认真阅读小说原著，广泛查找、阅读参考资料和书籍，在领会理解的基础
3、上形成自己的观点，并清晰、有逻辑性地阐释自己的观点。语言正确地道，行文通顺流畅。课题主要内容及进度本论文探讨了谈恩美小说喜福会中四对移民母亲和美国化的女儿之间的矛盾背景、矛盾表现、矛盾原因、以及矛盾解决方案。这是探讨解决与文化差异有关的文化冲突的一次颇有意义的尝试。进度： 2011 年 1 月 11 日1 月 22 日 撰写开题报告2011 年 1 月 22 日 交开题报告2011 年 1 月 23 日3 月 6 日 阅读、整理文献2011 年 3 月 7 日4 月 20 日 撰写论文初稿2011 年 4 月 21 日5 月 31 日 修改论文初稿/二稿/ 定稿等2011 年 6 月 1 日6
4、 月 9 日 评阅及盲审2011 年 6 月 10 日 论文答辩注：以上各项由指导教师填写IConflict and Blending between American daughters and Their Chinese MothersA Study of Amy Tans The Joy Luck ClubBy Wang XiaonanUnder the Supervision of Assoc. Prof. Chen LiA Thesis Submitted toThe English Department of School of Foreign LanguagesEast Chin
5、a University of Science and TechnologyIn Partial Fulfillment of the RequirementsFor the Degree of Bachelor of ArtsJune 2011IAbstractDifference between Chinese and Western cultures has always been a main source of conflict between local people and citizens of Chinese origin. In The Joy Luck Club, Amy
6、 Tan describes the conflicts between the mothers and daughters to show us different culture traditions, perceptions of life, etc. between American and Chinese culture. In the end, the two different cultures merge together. Nowadays, with the development of globalization, more contacts require an eff
7、ective way of communication to narrow the gap between different cultures. So, in this thesis, through systematic study of The Joy Luck Club by analyzing what are the conflicts, and why they have conflicts, the author would like to dissect the main reasons of cultural conflicts and find proper ways i
8、n blending cultures.Keywords: The Joy Luck Club; Culture; Conflicts; CommunicationII摘 要西方的中国移民和当地人的矛盾很大程度上源于东西方文化的差异。在小说喜福会中，作者谭恩美在描写母女矛盾时表达了不同的文化传统、意识形态等的重要影响作用。在小说的结尾，母女的矛盾化解了，而原因大致可以归纳为：母亲与生俱来的母爱和有效的沟通交流。如今，全球化加速，不同文化背景的人与人之间的接触更多了,在这种情况下，寻找一种有效的交流方式就显得格外重要。在这篇论文中，我将系统地对小说喜福会进行研究分析。母女间矛盾是什么？为什么会有
9、矛盾？同时，我将试图通过以上分析为文化冲突最终找到合适的解决方法。关键词：喜福会; 文化; 矛盾; 交流IIIContentsAbstract .I摘 要 .IIChapter One Introduction .1Chapter Two The Mothers Sufferings.22.1 The Sufferings of June Woos Mother -Suyuan Woo.22.2 The Sufferings of Roses Mother -An-mei Hsu.22.3 The Sufferings of Waverlys Mother -Lindo Jong.22.4 T
10、he Sufferings of Lenas Mother -Ying Ying Gu .3Chapter Three Conflicts.43.1 Conflicts between Suyuan Woo and June .43.2 Conflicts between An-mei Hsu and Rose.53.3 Conflicts between Lindo Jong and Waverly .63.4 Conflicts between Ying Ying Gu and Lena St. Clair .6Chapter Four Causes of the Conflicts.84
11、.1 Different Forms of Social Organization .84.2 Different Natural Conditions.94.3 Different Ways of Expression.10Chapter Five Blending.125.1 Maternal Love in The Joy Luck Club.125.2 Dialogue and Effective Communication in The Joy Luck Club.13Chapter Six Conclusion.15Bibliography .16Acknowledgements
12、.17Conflict and Blending between American Daughters and Their Chinese Mothers 1 Chapter One Introduction The Joy Luck Club (1989) was written by Amy Tan. It tells the conflicts and blending of four pairs of mothers of China origin and daughters who grew up in America. The mothers start a club known
13、as “the Joy Luck Club,“ playing the Chinese game - mahjong for fun. This book has four parts divided into four sections creating sixteen chapters. This thesis which consists of six main chapters, will analyze the conflicts and blending between American and Chinese cultures in The Joy Luck Club. In t
14、he first chapter, I will briefly introduce the relationship networks and the main experience in China of the immigrant mothers. In the second chapter, I will summarize the conflicts between mothers and daughters respectively with the following key words: expectation, confidence, interference, and mi
15、sunderstanding. In the following chapter, Id like to analyze the reasons of the conflicts between mothers and daughters, including the different cultural traditions, different natural conditions, different social organization, and different ways of expression. In the last but one chapter, the way ho
16、w they confront the conflicts and get along with each other finally will be my focus. In the last chapter, I will make a summary.The reason why I choose this novel and this topic is on the one hand, with the globalization going far and fast, nowadays more and more people get the chance to live abroa
17、d. According to the latest figure release of the “2011 American Study of Population Dynamics“ the Chinese Americans become the largest Asian American ethnic groups, and in the past 10 years, Chinese-American population increased by one third. So I believe my thesis has a realistic significance when
18、more and more Chinese come across culture shocks in the foreign countries. On the other hand, the style of education between China and America differs a lot. My thesis also tries to summarize the solutions in solving the conflicts which are offered by the author by analyzing the specific conflicts o
19、f four pairs of mothers and daughters in the novel.Conflict and Blending between American Daughters and Their Chinese Mothers 2 Chapter Two The Mothers SufferingsThe novel has a balanced structure. There are four sections, and four tales within each section. To make my thesis easy to follow, Id like
20、 to introduce the sufferings of the four mothers first, which actually lay the foundation for some of the conflicts and the flows of the plots.2.1 The Sufferings of June Woos Mother -Suyuan WooJune Woos Chinese name was Jing-mei Woo, and she was an unmarried writer who decided to travel to China to
21、meet the halfsisters she had never knownSuyuan Woo was her motherDuring the World War , Suyuan took the kids to Guangxi to seek safer shelter, where she and the other three women organized a Joy Luck Club which relieved them of cares and worries. Before long news came that the Japanese army would in
22、vade Kweilin, and then Suyuan Woo had to flee to Chongqing with her twin daughters with no vehicles at all. However she was so exhausted that she dropped her twin daughters on the side of the road desperately. Fortunately, she had a narrow escape with the help of an American missionary, who took her
23、 to the hospital, in which she met Luning Woo and married him in America. 2.2 The Sufferings of Roses Mother -An-mei HsuAn-mei Hsu was the mother of RoseShe was the last of four best friends，who came to the US after seeing her own mother become the mistreated 4th wife of an abusive Chinese businessm
24、an. When she was young, she was forced to follow her mother as a concubine to Tianjin from Ningbo. Under the old rule of patriarchal ideology in Chinese society, if a woman remarried, it would be a great shame to her and her family. Therefore, her mothers status in the mansion was much lower than th
25、e other three wives. An-mei Hsu deeply felt the pain of living off others. Although finally she was relieved of jealousy and struggle of the large house, the free was at the cost of the life of her mother. 2.3 The Sufferings of Waverlys Mother -Lindo JongWaverly was a divorced accountant and she had
26、 a new boyfriend, Rich. Lindo was her Conflict and Blending between American Daughters and Their Chinese Mothers 3 mother. She came to the United States after having escaped from a horrible arranged marriage with a 10-years-old boy when she was 13She lived in the north of China, where they had suffe
27、red natural disasters for several years, so her parents had to let her get married early, while the other family members got away from the famine-stricken area. Lindo Jong married a useless rich kid by a matchmaker. Unfortunately, she was not in that family a hostess, but a child bride, suffering a
28、variety of insults. In order to preserve the secrets-sexual dysfunction-of their son, her parents-in-law gave money and set her free.2.4 The Sufferings of Lenas Mother -Ying Ying GuLena was a depressed and newly married woman whose husband, Harold, was an American guyYing Ying, mother of Lena, was S
29、uyuans another friend who came to the United States after having been married to a cruel Chinese manYing Ying Gu came from a prosperous family. Her husband was a playboy, and gave her such great physical and psychological damage that she killed her unborn child in desperation, and departed from her husband until he had died. Later, she married an American soldier and began a new life.
