Abstract A famous Chinese-American writer Amy Tan’s work The Joy Luck Club describes the traditional Chinese education methods that the mothers use to educate their daughters who are born and grow up in the United States。 The education causes a series of conflicts。 This paper explores the differences between Chinese and American family education on the basis of the analysis of the cultural differences between China and the United States。75865

Key words: family education; The Joy Luck Club; mother and daughter; culture shock and culture link

摘要美国华裔作家谭恩美的代表作《喜福会》主要讲述了母亲用传统的中国家庭教育方法来教育在美国出生美国长大的女儿，结果导致了一连串的冲突。本文在探讨中美文化差异的基础上分析中美两国国家庭教育的方式的差别。

毕业论文关键词：家庭教育；《喜福会》； 母女；中美文化壁垒和联系

Contents

1。Introduction １

2。 Literature Review １

3。 The Relationship between the Mothers and the Daughters ２

3。1 The conflicts between the mothers and the daughters ２

3。2 Mothers’ great expectations for daughters ４

3。3 Daughters’ understanding of mothers’ love ５

4。 The Cultural Factors of Family Education ６

4。1 Culture difference between the East and the West ６

4。2 Cultural understanding and blending ９

5。 Conclusion １０

Works Cited １１

1。Introduction 

 The Joy Luck Club is a well-known novel written by Amy Tan。 Amy Tan is a high-profile Chinese-American novelist in recent years。 Her work The Joy Luck Club includes 16 interwoven stories。 It embodies the process from conflict to understanding each other between the Chinese immigrant mothers and the daughters grew up in the United States。 The four mothers come from China and every one of them has different identity, experience and life orientation。 One of the mothers feels brooding for dropping a pair of twin daughters, the other one has a lifetime of pain because she strangled her son promising to revenge her fickle lover, and the third one lives a restless life for her mother’s miserable destiny。 However, the daughters never understand their mothers’ joy and sorrow。 Then a lot of problems occur between them。论文网

 Family education, as one of the important factors in education, has been concerned by people for a long time。 When a child is born from the mother's womb, it is like a piece of white paper。 Each child has not many differences at the beginning。 However, they often show great differences in the later growth process。 For example, some of the children have active thinking, while some of them are very dull; some of the children are polite, while some of them are unreasonable; some of the children will manage themselves while some of them are dependent on adults。 These are slowly formed under the influence of various aspects of the education in the children growth process。 These educations include family education, school education, social education and others。 Among all the educations, family education is the most important。 This paper explores the differences between Chinese and American family education on the basis of the analysis of the cultural differences between China and the United States。

2。 Literature Review

The great success of The Joy Luck Club has not only established Amy Tan’s position in the history of American literature, but also has caused more and more foreign and domestic scholars to study the famous novels。 Harold Bloom said:“In such a cultural ‘melting pot’ of the United States, there are a variety of other cultures dominated by white culture。” With the rise of the civil rights movement in the United States, some western scholars have put forward the idea of multiculturalism。 Cultural pluralism, advocating a variety of cultural coexistence and the cultural discrimination。 The Joy Luck Club reflects the process from conflict to integration of Chinese culture and American culture。 “Harold Bloom believes that the formation of the American multicultural is mainly to overthrow the old cultural thinking, through the establishment of multicultural framework to eliminate cultural discrimination。” ( Harold 125) In The Joy Luck Club, the daughters discriminate Chinese culture in the beginning。 Finally, people from different cultural backgrounds get the integration, which realizes the multicultural atmosphere。