Acknowledgments  I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during my writing of this thesis.My deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to Associate Professor Yu Jing, my supervisor, for her constant encouragement and valuable suggestions on my thesis. In the preparation of the thesis, she has spent much time reading through each chapter and provided me with useful advice. Without her patient instruction and expert guidance, the completion of this thesis would not have been possible and that successful.10059
I am also greatly indebted to the professors and teachers in School of Foreign Languages: Yuan Bing, Yan Ming, Chen Zhihong, Zhu Shichang, Huai Peixin, Chen Jie and so on, who have helped me a lot in every aspect of my study. From their devoted teaching and enlightening lectures, I have benefited a lot and academically prepared for the thesis.
Special thanks should go to my friends and my classmates who gave me their time in listening to me and helping me work out my problems during the difficult course of the thesis.
Last but not least, I want to express my sincere thanks to my beloved family for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years.
Abstract
The Joy Luck Club is written by Amy Tan, a famous Chinese American writer. In this novel she mainly describes the complicated relationship between four Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters. The thesis tries to analyze the mother-daughter relationship in detail by presenting the cultural conflicts and blending. The author holds the idea that these conflicts between them are just the reflection of the cultural conflicts. Therefore, by analyzing the mother-daughter conflicts we can clearly find the cultural conflicts hidden behind this relationship and have a discussion of the possibility and inevitability of the coexistence of different cultures.
The thesis is pided into four chapters. In Chapter one, the writer makes a brief introduction to the research background, Amy Tan and The Joy Luck Club. In Chapter two, the writer analyzes the conflicts and blending which exist in the Mother-Daughter relationships in detail. In The Joy Luck Club, different manners on expressions and different understanding on personal value and cultures make the conflicts happen. And the cultural concord is mainly represented by maternal love and daughters’ consciousness of racial and cultural identity. In Chapter three, a detailed analysis is made to explain the reasons why there exists so disharmonious relationship between mothers and daughters, and how the Chinese culture and Western culture reconnect with each other at last.
From the analysis of the thesis, the conclusion can be drawn that different cultural backgrounds cause the conflicts and multiple cultures can coexist. Only when people from different cultures understand and respect the others’ culture and make better communication can they build up harmonious relationship.
Key Words:  The Joy Luck Club, mother-daughter relationships, cultural conflict, culture blending
摘要 《喜福会》是美国著名华裔女作家谭恩美的作品。小说主要描述了四位移民母亲和她们在美国长大的女儿之间复杂的母女关系。本论文欲从文化冲突与融合角度具体分析文中母女之间的关系。本文作者认为母女冲突是文化冲突的一种体现。因此, 通过分析其中的母女关系，我们可以揭示隐含在母女关系背后的文化冲突，以及探讨两种文化融合的可能性和必然性。
本文共分四章。第一章为介绍部分，主要对于研究背景和作家谭恩美和小说《喜福会》做了简单的介绍。在第二章中，笔者将系统地剖析小说中母女关系中存在的冲突与融合之处。中西方表达方式的不同，对个人不同价值观的理解以及文化意识的差异使得这种冲突变得很强烈。小说中的文化融合主要体现在母女关系和解以及女儿重新确定了文化身份。在第三章中，笔者将详细分析造成一系列文化冲突的原因，最后解释中西文化融合的缘由。 《喜福会》中母女关系的解读:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_8969.html