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• The Joy Luck Club • The Kitchen God's Wife • The Hundred Secret Senses • The Bonesetter's Daughter • Saving Fish From Drowning • The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (Non-fiction) • The Moon Lady (1992) • Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994)
Recent History
• How can you say luck and chance are the same thing. Chance is the first step you take, and luck is what comes afterwards
• ——Amy Tan
• The Kitchen God's Wife
The book explores the difficult relationship between Ruth, a Chinese-American woman, and LuLing, her Chinese mother. Tan brilliantly combines the small details of everyday life with the larger issues of displacement, culture and language and the importance of shared family histories.
• Chinese American literature written of the 20th century is written almost exclusively in English.
• Chinese American authors became more prolific and accepted after the lifting of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
'Compelling...exotic lands and the past lend themselves to poetry.
Saving Fish From Drowning
Awarded an honorable mention from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, it is Tan's sixth and most recent work. The story follows the trials and tribulations twelve American tourists face when they embark on an expedition to explore China and Bb
The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco, California 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. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game.
The theme and topic of Chinise American Culture
• Chinese American literature deals with many topics and themes.
• A common topic is the challenges
• Another common theme is that of interaction between generations.
The Kitchen God's Wife
A triumph
A solid indication
Aagain a story that a Chinese mother tells her daughter
Surpasses its predecessor as a fully integrated and developed narrative, immensely readable, perceptive, humorous, poignant and wise.
• 19th century Chinese American writers were primarily workers and students.
• Some famous writers of this period
Chinese American Literature in the 20th century
• Resides in Sausalito, California with her husband, Louis DeMattei, a lawyer whom she met on a blind date and married in 1974.
Major Works of Amy Tan
In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu. The screenplay was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass. The novel was also adapted into a play, by Susan Kim, which premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York.
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Hundred Secret Senses focuses on the relationship between Chinese-born Kwan and her younger, Chinese American sister Olivia, who serves as the book's primary narrator.
• Tan received her bachelor's and master's degrees in English and linguistics from San José State University, and later did doctoral linguistics studies at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley.
• Questions of identity and gender are often dealt with as well
Chinese American Literature in the 19th century
• 19th century Chinese American literature has only recently come to be studied, as much of it was written in Chinese.
The melding of Olivia's modern Western world and Kwan's yin world come to show the desire and ambivalence of connecting and creating an Asian American identity for Olivia and Kwan, individually and together. The tension builds when together Kwan schemes to get Olivia and her estranged husband, Simon, back together by traveling to China. Kwan serves as the translator for the two writers on their assignment to discover Olivia and Kwan's connection to the Yin world. Kwan makes Olivia come to see that there are things in this world that we can understand through our five senses but that sometimes the hundred secret senses are where we understand the rest.
Amy Tan
• A middle child and only daughter born on in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants John Tan and Daisy February 19, 1952.
• Moved to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school. During this period, Amy learned about her mother's former marriage to an abusive man in China, and of their four children, including three daughters and a son who died as a toddler. In 1987 Amy traveled with Daisy to China. There, Amy finally met her three half-sisters.
• The 1970s saw further progress.
Chinese American Literature in the 20th century
• In the 1980s • David Henry Hwang • Amy Tan • The 1990s saw further growth
This story is about the journey of identity, family history, past lives, and ultimately, love.
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Bonesetter's Daughter, published in 2001, is Amy Tan's fourth novel. Like much of Tan's work, this novel deals with the relationship between an American-born Chinese woman and her immigrant mother.
Recent History
• How can you say luck and chance are the same thing. Chance is the first step you take, and luck is what comes afterwards
• ——Amy Tan
• The Kitchen God's Wife
The book explores the difficult relationship between Ruth, a Chinese-American woman, and LuLing, her Chinese mother. Tan brilliantly combines the small details of everyday life with the larger issues of displacement, culture and language and the importance of shared family histories.
• Chinese American literature written of the 20th century is written almost exclusively in English.
• Chinese American authors became more prolific and accepted after the lifting of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
'Compelling...exotic lands and the past lend themselves to poetry.
Saving Fish From Drowning
Awarded an honorable mention from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, it is Tan's sixth and most recent work. The story follows the trials and tribulations twelve American tourists face when they embark on an expedition to explore China and Bb
The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco, California 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. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game.
The theme and topic of Chinise American Culture
• Chinese American literature deals with many topics and themes.
• A common topic is the challenges
• Another common theme is that of interaction between generations.
The Kitchen God's Wife
A triumph
A solid indication
Aagain a story that a Chinese mother tells her daughter
Surpasses its predecessor as a fully integrated and developed narrative, immensely readable, perceptive, humorous, poignant and wise.
• 19th century Chinese American writers were primarily workers and students.
• Some famous writers of this period
Chinese American Literature in the 20th century
• Resides in Sausalito, California with her husband, Louis DeMattei, a lawyer whom she met on a blind date and married in 1974.
Major Works of Amy Tan
In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu. The screenplay was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass. The novel was also adapted into a play, by Susan Kim, which premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York.
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Hundred Secret Senses focuses on the relationship between Chinese-born Kwan and her younger, Chinese American sister Olivia, who serves as the book's primary narrator.
• Tan received her bachelor's and master's degrees in English and linguistics from San José State University, and later did doctoral linguistics studies at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley.
• Questions of identity and gender are often dealt with as well
Chinese American Literature in the 19th century
• 19th century Chinese American literature has only recently come to be studied, as much of it was written in Chinese.
The melding of Olivia's modern Western world and Kwan's yin world come to show the desire and ambivalence of connecting and creating an Asian American identity for Olivia and Kwan, individually and together. The tension builds when together Kwan schemes to get Olivia and her estranged husband, Simon, back together by traveling to China. Kwan serves as the translator for the two writers on their assignment to discover Olivia and Kwan's connection to the Yin world. Kwan makes Olivia come to see that there are things in this world that we can understand through our five senses but that sometimes the hundred secret senses are where we understand the rest.
Amy Tan
• A middle child and only daughter born on in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants John Tan and Daisy February 19, 1952.
• Moved to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school. During this period, Amy learned about her mother's former marriage to an abusive man in China, and of their four children, including three daughters and a son who died as a toddler. In 1987 Amy traveled with Daisy to China. There, Amy finally met her three half-sisters.
• The 1970s saw further progress.
Chinese American Literature in the 20th century
• In the 1980s • David Henry Hwang • Amy Tan • The 1990s saw further growth
This story is about the journey of identity, family history, past lives, and ultimately, love.
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Bonesetter's Daughter, published in 2001, is Amy Tan's fourth novel. Like much of Tan's work, this novel deals with the relationship between an American-born Chinese woman and her immigrant mother.