There is a few specialized research work abroad on The Bonesetter’s Daughter alone, instead, this novel has always been analyzed in books or articles studying Amy Tan or Chinese American literature such as Amy Ling and Bella Adams。 Mary Ellen Snodgrass appreciated “the tender, sincere, complex, honest and uncompromising in its portrayal of Chinese culture and its affect” on women of Amy Tan in her book  Amy Tan: A Literary Companion。 Carol Cujec explored the inherent relationship between the real turbulent life of tan’s mother and her creation。 In his article Excavating Memory, Reconstructing Legacy: A Mother's Past is the Key to Understanding and Healing for Her Daughter, he concluded that her mother’s past has fed Tan's imagination to create four dramatic and emotionally engaging novels, which have helped countless readers connect with the Chinese-American experience。。 Z Mistri’s examined the discovery of ethnic name and genealogical tie in the novel and drew people’s attention to the anguish on cultural separation and the lack of communication between mother and daughter。 Any Liang’s work Study of Chinese-American Writing is earliest essay focusing on Chinese American writers which provides basic knowledge for literary critics to go on。 Xiao-huang Yin shows how change and continuity in the Chinese American experience are reflected in the writings of immigrants from China and their descendants by taking Amy Tan’s work as an example in his book Chinese American Literature Since the 1850s Sau-ling Cynthia Wong studied Amy Tan from the perspective of feminism to explore the “intertextuality” of Asian American literature 。